EDOARDO CLERICI IN ASSEMBLEA COSTITUENTE: UN IMPEGNO NEL LUOGO DELL’UNITÀ DI INTENTI E DI METODI

On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, these pages aim to explore Edoardo Clerici’s contribution to the Constituent Assembly, his acute observations wich proved decisive in improving the first drafts of the democratic order of the new Italian Republic. In his view, this order could not ignore the centrality of Parliament, the exclusion of the direct election of the President of the Republic by universal suffrage, the establishment of Cabinet Councils, and the creation of a Senate representing the Italian regions, provinces and large cities. The speeches he gave at the Constituent Assembly confirmed his realism, his profound knowledge of the European constitutional history, and his thoughts developed over long years of action, from his involvement in the Popular Party to the clandestine founding of the Dc, amid the struggle against fascism and the construction of a democratic order of the new Republican Italy.