1 SISTEMI GIURIDICI COMPARATI DIRITTO DELLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE Primo modulo.

Presentazione sul tema: "1 SISTEMI GIURIDICI COMPARATI DIRITTO DELLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE Primo modulo."— Transcript della presentazione:

1 1 SISTEMI GIURIDICI COMPARATI DIRITTO DELLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE Primo modulo

2 2 Un sunto dei contenuti del corso e del programma desame (I) Il corso intende presentare agli studenti il settore dellesperienza giuridica che studia e confronta i diversi sistemi giuridici presenti nel mondo, o quanto meno quelli fra essi oggi più rilevanti, pur non trascurando la menzione di quelli ora definibili come minori. Il concetto di sistema giuridico assume a questi scopi due configurazioni : -Quello di sinonimo di ordinamento giuridico, a sua volta molto prossimo a quello di soggetto di diritto internazionale; e -Quello di modalità di struttura e di sviluppo dellordinamento, il che può condurre ad individuare ordinamenti ove sono compresenti diversi sistemi (un tempo detti plurilegislativi, come sono a volte, ma non sempre, gli Stati Federali : si pensi al Canada, dove il diritto del Québec costituisce un ordinamento a sé, ed un sistema a sé), e sistemi, come quelli di common law che comprendono, od hanno compreso sino a pochissimo tempo fa, diversi ordinamenti.

3 3 Un sunto dei contenuti del corso e del programma desame (II) -Nella seconda e terza parte del corso verranno esaminati alcuni istituti giuridici dellodierna società globalizzata che disciplinano le attività dei soggetti privati, individui e più ancora imprese, sia nella loro vita di relazione, che, in specie, nella loro attività economica. Tali istituti trovano la loro fonte in istituti di diritto interno, fatti circolare per il mondo a seguito dellespansione delle attività e dei traffici commerciali (come è dallinizio della storia). -Oggi, ciò significa soprattutto esaminare istituti nel confronto tra disciplina originatasi nei Paesi di c.d. civil law, ossia quelli che condividono una tradizionale discendenza dal sistema del diritto romano, in specie nella visione dello stesso durante lEvo Medio, da un lato, e quella originatasi nei Paesi di common law, dallaltro, ossia nei Paesi che – oggi con rilevanti differenze reciproche – si richiamano allesperienza autonoma di formazione delle fonti del diritto, che si è avuta in una ininterrotta evoluzione allinterno del Regno dInghilterra, almeno dal 1066, e sino alla fine del 1800. -In tale contesto, verrà condotto un esame di dettaglio del diritto dei contratti internazionali, con particolare attenzione alla loro matrice anglosassone.

4 4 IL GLOBO ED I SISTEMI GIURIDICI

5 5 LO SPAZIO GIURIDICO EUROPEO

6 6 GRANDI SISTEMI E FAMIGLIE (I) I sistemi romanistici (di civil law) 1.Il Code Civil francese del 1804 e le sue derivazioni 2.I sistemi dei Paesi di cultura tedesca 3.I sistemi dei Paesi nordici 4.I sistemi giuridici nellEuropa Orientale

7 7 GRANDI SISTEMI E FAMIGLIE (II) I sistemi di civil law derivati dal Code Civil 1.Il Burgerlijk Wetboek olandese, ed i Codici di Belgio e Lussemburgo 2.I Codici Civili italiani : pre-unitari, del 1865, del 1942 vigente 3.Il Codigo Civil spagnolo, e le sue autonome derivazioni latino-americane (e la speciale posizione di Portogallo e Brasile) 4.Il Code Civil du Bas Canada, poi Code Civil du Québec 5.Le derivazioni coloniali nei Paesi già colonie francesi od italiane

8 8 GRANDI SISTEMI E FAMIGLIE (III) I sistemi dei Paesi di cultura tedesca 1.Il Codice Civile Generale Austriaco, o Allgemeines Burgerliches GesetzBuch (ABGB) del 1811 e la sua area di espansione in Europa Orientale e la sua area di espansione in Europa Orientale 2.Il Codice Civile tedesco, o Burgerliches GesetzBuch (BGB) del 1896, rinnovato nel 2000, imitato in Grecia e Giappone 3.Il Codice Civile Svizzero, o Zivil Gesetzbuch (CCS – ZGB) del 1907 la sua recezione in Turchia nel 1927 la sua recezione in Turchia nel 1927

9 9 GRANDI SISTEMI E FAMIGLIE (IV) I sistemi dei Paesi nordici Il sistema danese (Danske Lov), e la recezione di esso in Norvegia (Norske Lov), Islanda, Far Oer e Groenlandia Il sistema danese (Danske Lov), e la recezione di esso in Norvegia (Norske Lov), Islanda, Far Oer e Groenlandia Il sistema svedese (Rikes lag) e la sua recezione in Finlandia Il sistema svedese (Rikes lag) e la sua recezione in Finlandia

10 10 IL SISTEMA INGLESE, O DI COMMON LAW, E LE SUE ORIGINI

11 11 LINGHILTERRA NEL SEC. VIII

12 12 LINGHILTERRA NEL SEC. XI

13 13 LUNIFICAZIONE DEFINITIVA DEL REGNO INGLESE ed il DOMESDAY BOOK Nel 1086 cerano solo 18 città con più di 2.000 abitanti in Inghilterra, che aveva in totale tra 1,2 ed 1,5 milioni di abitanti

14 14 LA STRUTTURA ORGANIZZATIVA DEL REGNO INGLESE The King (The Crown) The Kings Council The Kings Bench The Court of Kings Bench The Court of Common Pleas The ChancellorThe Exchequer The Court of Exchequer

15 15 UNA SEQUENZA CRONOLOGICA 1066 La conquista normanna 1087 Morte di William I; regno di Willliam II Rufus 1100 Morte di William II; regno di Henry I 1135 regno di Henry I; interregno e regno di Stephen de Blois 1154 Sale al trono Henry II 1166 Assizes of Clarendon 1176 Assizes of Northampton 1187 Ranulf de Glanvil pubblica la sua raccolta di casi 1189 Muore Henry II; sale al trono Richard I Lionheart 1199 Muore Richard I; gli succede John Senza Terra

16 16 FATTI E DATE DEL 1200 1215 La Magna Charta 1216 Muore John, gli succede Henry III, che regnerà sino al 1272 1258 Provisions of Oxford 1275 Bracton pubblica il De legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae ed il Notebook 1278 Lo Statute Quo Warranto Lo Statute of Westminster II ed il writ upon the case

17 17 La politica……. ed il diritto I re inglesi e le loro guerre EDWARD I 1272 - 1307 - defeated the Welsh chieftains and created his eldest son Prince of Wales. - defeated the Scots and brought the famous coronation stone from Scone to Westminster. EDWARD II 1307 - 1327 was beaten by the Scots at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 I re inglesi e le loro guerre EDWARD I 1272 - 1307 - defeated the Welsh chieftains and created his eldest son Prince of Wales. - defeated the Scots and brought the famous coronation stone from Scone to Westminster. EDWARD II 1307 - 1327 was beaten by the Scots at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 EDWARD I 1272 – 1307 - formed the Model Parliament in 1295, bringing together the knights, clergy, nobility and burgesses of the cities, bringing Lords and Commons together for the first time - enacted the Statute of Westminster II, 1285

18 18 La Guerra dei Cento Anni 1337- 1453 Edward IIIEdward III 1327 - 1377 Edward III Edward, the Black PrinceEdward, the Black Prince (1330-1376) Edward, the Black Prince Richard IIRichard II 1377 – 1399 Richard II Henry IVHenry IV Lancaster 1399 – 1413 Henry IV Henry VHenry V 1413 – 1422 Henry V Henry VIHenry VI 1422 - 1461/1470 - 1471 Henry VI

19 19 La Guerra delle Due Rose 1460 -1485 Edward III Edward, the Black Prince Richard II John of Gaunt of Lancaster Henry IV Henry V Henry VI John Beaufort John II Beaufort Margaret Beaufort Henry VII Re dal 1485 Edmund Langley of York Richard of Cambridge Richard of York Edward IV Edward V Richard III

20 20 Lequity dalla Chancery alla Court of Chancery Dalla fine del secolo XIII al 1474, opera la Chancery, in nome del Re, … in consultazione con il Kings Council sino al 1377 (?), … non più da quellanno Dal 1474 il Chancellor emette decrees in nome proprio : nasce la Court of Chancery Dal 1474 il Chancellor emette decrees in nome proprio : nasce la Court of Chancery

21 21 Il 1500, secolo della Riforma Re Enrico VIII Tudor aderisce alla Riforma protestante e crea la Chiesa Anglicana, con immedesimazione tra Chiesa e Regno Dopo la sua morte, ed il tentativo di restaurazione cattolica della regina Maria, con Elisabetta I il Cattolicesimo è perseguito Iniziano i processi di Stato, gli State Trials La Court of Chancery si laicizza, diviene la quarta Corte del Re Si consolidano gli istituti del common law, grazie allopera di giudici autori di testi di studio : Fortescue e Littleton sulle tenures, tra 1500 e 1600 Coke con gli Institutes Nel 1615 lEarl of Oxford case sancisce la premi- nenza di applicazione dellequity

22 22 Il 1600 : guerre civili, rivoluzioni pacifiche, linizio dellespansione globale La salita al trono degli Stuart : James I, Charles I, il Parlamento, i Puritani, i nuovi processi, il Commonwealth (1649- 1660) La Restaurazione, James II (1685-1688) La Glorious Revolution, 1688 1610 : è fondata Jamestown, Virginia La preminenza politica del Parlamento, che conduce la guerra contro il Re La prima legge parlamentare in materia economica : il Monopolies Act, 1623 Il Bill of Rights, 1688

23 23 Il 1700 : il trionfo del Parlamento e la dimensione imperiale 1714 : arrivano i re stranieri 1721-1742 : Robert Walpole è il primo Premier, seguito dai Pitt 1756 -1763 : la Guerra dei Sette Anni e la Pace di Parigi : il Nord America e lIndia diventano britannici 1776 : la Rivoluzione Americana Nasce la società di capitali, o company : i fallimenti e gli scandali Il copyright e lo Statute of Anne, 1710 Le assicurazioni ed i Lloyds of London Blackstone (1723-1780) La tentazione per la riforma del diritto contrattuale e per la codificazione

24 24 Il 1800 : il trionfo imperiale e le riforme giudiziarie La vittoria su Napoleone, lespansione coloniale in Africa ed Asia, il Canada Londra capitale commerciale e finanziaria mondiale, non culturale 1832, 1833 e 1854 : riforme della procedura, con unificazione delle forme 1846 : County Courts Act 1857 : creazione della Court of Probate e della Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes

25 25 LA GIUSTIZIA INGLESE ALLA VIGILIA DELLA RIFORMA DEL 1873-75 The House of Lords The Court of Kings Bench The Court of Common Pleas The Court of Exchequer The Court of Exchequer Chamber The Court of Chancery The Court of Appeal in Chancery The Court of Admiralty The Court of Probate The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes

26 26 Lattività del Chancellor Insufficienza dei writs, insufficienza delle Corti regie La petition al Chancellor, e la tutela della coscienza del Re Lorder del Chancellor al respondent di giustificare il suo comportamento I criteri di valutazione : oltre il common law of the land, la aequitas canonica, e quindi S.Tommaso dAquino e la sua Summa, Cicerone, Aristotele, quindi la επιείκεια, la valutazione del caso concreto : lequity

27 27 The High Court of Justice Queens Bench Division Lord Chief Justice 53 puisne judges 12 masters Commercial Court Admiralty Court Chancery Division Lord Vice-Chancellor 13 puisne judges 9 masters Bankruptcy Court Companies Court Court of Protection Family Division President 16 puisne judges 13 district judges La giustizia civile superiore

28 28 La giustizia civile minore Oltre 300 County Courts 120 Circuit Judges RecordersRegistrars

29 29 La giustizia penale The Court of Appeal Criminal Division The Crown Courts The London Central Criminal Court 337 Magistrates Courts Stipendiary Magistrates Lay Magistrates Juvenile Courts The Coroners Courts

30 30 Le corti di impugnazione The Court of Appeal of England and Wales Civil Division - Criminal Division The House of Lords dallOttobre 2009 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

31 31 Stemma e palazzo della nuova Supreme Court

32 32 Altri organi giudiziari The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (le cui funzioni sono in parte assorbite dalla (le cui funzioni sono in parte assorbite dalla Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) The Courts-Martial Appeal Court (The Courts- Martial) The Employment Appeal Tribunal (The Industrial Tribunals) The Administrative Tribunals (Rent, Agricultural Land, …)

33 33 … & the Bar The Barristers, and The Solicitors

34 34 The precedent in English law The binding precedent – the persuasive precedent On the same facts From a Court having a binding power No flaws in the ratio decidendi Not obscure Not per incuriam Not too wideNot conflicting

35 35 The interpretation of the Statute Literal rule Golden rule Mischief rule

36 36 Cenni sul sistema statunitense

37 37 La colonizzazione britannica

38 38 Gli Stati Uniti al momento dellIndipendenza

39 39 Un sunto della Costituzione degli Stati Uniti dAmerica We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article I Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

40 40 La Costituzione La Camera dei Rappresentanti Article I - Section 2. 1. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. 2. No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen. [Clause 3 omitted] 4. When vacancies happen in the Representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. 5. The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.

41 41 La Costituzione : il Senato - I Art. I - Sect. 3 1.The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise, during the recess of the legislature of any state, the executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies. 3. No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.

42 42 La Costituzione : il Senato - II 4. The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. [Clause 5 omitted] 6. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present. 7. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.

43 43 La Costituzione : il procedimento legislativo Section 7. 1. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills. 2. Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a law.... If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law. 3. Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.

44 44 Le competenze federali : i poteri interni - I Section 8. 1. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; 2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

45 45 Le competenze federali : i poteri interni II Sect. 8.5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7. To establish post offices and post roads; 8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; 9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

46 46 Le competenze federali I poteri esteri e militari - I 10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations; 11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; 12. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years; 13. To provide and maintain a navy; 14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

47 47 Le competenze federali I poteri esteri e militari - II 15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions; [Clause 16, again on militia, omitted] 17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And 18. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

48 48 La Costituzione Il Presidente degli Stati Uniti - I Art. II - Section 1. 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows: 2. Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: [In part omitted - In part superseded by the XII Amendment] 3. The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.

49 49 La Costituzione Il Presidente degli Stati Uniti - II Art. II – Section 4 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States. 5. In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected. 6. [Compensation] 7. [Oath]

50 50 La Costituzione I poteri del Presidente degli Stati Uniti - I Section 2. 1. The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; [In part omitted]. 2. He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. [Clause 3 omitted]

51 51 La Costituzione I poteri del Presidente degli Stati Uniti - II Section 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States. Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

52 52 La Costituzione : Il Potere Giudiziario – I Art. III Section 1. The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, [in part omitted] Section 2. 1. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;--to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more states;--between a state and citizens of another state;-- between citizens of different states;--between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.

53 53 La Costituzione : Il Potere Giudiziario – II 2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed. Section 3. [on treason, omitted]

54 54 Il potere giudiziario federale United States Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals United States Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals 12 Regional Circuit Courts of Appeals 1 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Es. : USCA9th = United States Court of Appeal for the 9th Circuit U.S. District Courts 94 Judicial Districts Es. USDCSDNY = United States District Court for the Southern Disctrict of New York U.S. Court of International Trade - U.S. Court of Federal Claims Military Courts (trial and appellate) - Court of Veterans Appeals U.S. Tax Court - Federal administrative agencies and boards

55 55 La Costituzione: i rapporti tra gli Stati Art. IV. Section 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. Section 2. 1. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states. 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime. [Clause 3 omitted] Section 3. [on new States omitted] Section 4. [on republican form of governemnt of States omitted]

56 56 La Costituzione Il procedimento di modifica Article V The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

57 57 La Costituzione : le clausole finali Article VI [Clause 1 on Confederations debts omitted] 2. This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. [Clause 3 on Senators and Representatives oath omitted] Article VII The ratification of the conventions of nine states, shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the states so ratifying the same

58 58 Gli Emendamenti ed il Bill of Rights Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Amendment III No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

59 59 Gli Emendamenti ed il Bill of Rights - II Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

60 60 Gli Emendamenti ed il Bill of Rights - III Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. Amendment VII In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

61 61 Gli Emendamenti ed il Bill of Rights - IV Amendment VIII Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Amendment X The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

62 62 Gli altri Emendamenti - I Amendment XII (1804) The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice- President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each,...[In part omitted] Amendment XIV (1868) Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. [Clauses 2 through 5 omitted]

63 63 Gli altri Emendamenti - II Amendment XV (1870) Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Amendment XIX (1920) The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Amendment XXII (1951) Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. [In part omitted]

64 64 Gli altri Emendamenti - III Amendment XXIII (1961) Section 1. The District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more than the least populous state; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the states, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a state; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment. Amendment XXVI (1971) Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.