Ordinare il caos Parte II: Cormenin e l’indipendenza italiana

Abstract

After having dealt, in the first part of the essay, with Cormenin’s contribution to the for- mation of administrative law and of a coherent theory of administrative centralization, this second part will examine little-known themes linked to 1848 in Europe and his inter- locutions, in this dramatic and effervescent historical moment, with the main protagonists of the moment, first and foremost Alexis de Tocqueville. In addition, Cormenin’s relations, still less studied, with the Italian independence process, in which he participated directly and indirectly, contributing, not without contradictions, to the constitutional design of a federal Italy and to the theorization of popular sovereignty and constituent power, will be explored.