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Handle with Care!: The Regional Charters and Italian Constitutionalism's ‘Grey Zone’*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2009

Giacomo Delledonne  and
Giuseppe Martinico
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Abstract

Founding principles and rights in new Statuti (fundamental regional charters) – Expression of sub – national constitutionalism? – Constitutional court: Statuti not regional constitutions – Provisions on founding principles and rights ‘cultural statements’ lacking any legal effect – Tertium Genus in addition to ‘prescriptive’ and ‘programmatic’ norms? – Various scenarios for potential legal conflicts between the national Constitution and the ‘cultural statements’

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Corte constituzionaleItalyRegional StatutiSub-national constitutionalismRegional autonomyProgrammatic normsPrescriptive normsConstitutional conflictFundamental principles
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European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2009 , pp. 218 - 236
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2009

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* This paper (submitted in May 2008, accepted for publication in October 2008) is the result of joint reflections. However, sections 1, 2, 3 have been written by Giacomo Delledonne while sections 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 have been written by Giuseppe Martinico. We would like to thank Leonard Besselink, Alessandro Calbucci, Paolo Carrozza, Marco Dani, Andrea Deffenu, Filippo Fontanelli, Alberto Montagner, Alessandro Pizzorusso and Francesco Palermo for their suggestions and comments. Obviously, the usual disclaimers apply.