Statuto Albertino

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Statuto Albertino

The Statuto Albertino or Albertine Statute was the constitution

Constitution

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that King Charles Albert I of Sardinia

Charles Albert of Sardinia

Charles Albert was the Kingdom of Sardinia-Sardinia from 1831 to 1849. He succeeded his distant cousin Charles Felix of Sardinia, and his name is bound with the first Italian statute and the First Italian War of Independence....
conceded to the Kingdom of Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the Mediterranean islands#By area island in the Mediterranean Sea . The area of Sardinia is . The island is surrounded by the France island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Tunisia and the Balearic Islands....
(including also most parts of north-western Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, such as Piedmont) on 4 March 1848.

Historically, the Statuto was proclaimed only because of the concern of revolutionary insurrection which agitated Italy at the time (and Charles Albert was only following the example of other Italian rulers), but it was the only constitution to survive the repression that followed the First War of Independence (1848–1849).

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The Statuto Albertino or Albertine Statute was the constitution

Constitution

Charles Albert of Sardinia

Sardinia

Italy

Italian unification

Italian Unification was the political and social movement that annexed different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century....
was achieved and the Kingdom of Sardinia became the Kingdom of Italy

Kingdom of Italy

There have been several distinct entities known as the Kingdom of Italy. Italy under the rule of Odoacer from 476 to 493 is often called the kingdom of Italy, since it encompassed the Italia and Odoacer is periodically styled rex ....
. Even if it suffered deep modifications, especially during the fascist dictatorship

Italian Fascism

The term Italian Fascism denotes the Authoritarianism Nationalism Fascismo political movement that ruled Kingdom of Italy from 1922 until 1943 under leader Benito Mussolini....
of Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, Order of the Bath Sovereign Military Order of Malta Order of the Tower and Sword was an Italy politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
(who, however, ruled with the tacit approval of King Victor Emmanuel III), it was never formally abrogated until Italy assumed the republic

Republic

A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch but in which the people have an impact on its government. The word originates from the Latin term res publica....
an form of government in 1946.

In its original version it instituted a Parliament

Parliament of Italy

The Parliament of Italy is the national parliament of Italy. It is a bicameral legislature with 945 elected members . The Italian Chamber of Deputies, with 630 members is the lower house....
composed of the Senate of the Kingdom entirely nominated by the king and an elected House of Deputies. The King retained extensive powers, such as Article V which stated:—

The King alone has executive power
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. He is the supreme head of the state
Head of State

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, commands all the armed forces
Armed forces

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by sea and land, declares war, makes treaties of peace
Peace treaty

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, of alliance, of commerce
Commerce

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, but giving notice of them to the two Houses as far as national interest permit. Treaties which demand any financial burden, or which would alter territoral boundaries of the state, shall not have any effect until the two Houses have consented to them.

The King also appointed ministers of state, who were solely responsible to him. With time, it became virtually impossible for a Cabinet to stay in office (let alone govern) against the express will of Parliament. As a result, notwithstanding the letter of the Statuto, it became a well-established convention

Constitutional convention (political custom)

Alternative meaning: Constitutional convention A constitutional convention is an informal and uncodified procedural agreement that is followed by the institutions of a state....
that ministers were responsible to Parliament. In fact, this convention was so strongly established that in 1925, Mussolini had to pass a law which specifically stated that he was not responsible to Parliament.

External links

Presidenza della Repubblica, Palazzo del Quirinale . The text of the Statute.

Statuto Albertino

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