decrees, usages, and neglect, whence the Italian constitution has
become cumulative, consisting of an organism of law grouped about a
primary kernel which is the _Statuto_.[538]
[Footnote 538: Ruiz, Amendments to the Italian
Constitution, _loc. cit._, 57. The text of the
_Statuto_ appears in P. Coglio e Malchiodi, Codice
Politico Amministrativo. Raccolta completa di tutte
le leggi e regolamenti concernenti la pubblica
amministrazione nei suoi rapporti politici e
amministrativi (6th ed., Florence, 1907), and in V.
Gioia, Le leggi di unificazione amministrativa
precedute dalla legge fondamentale del regno, 2
vols. (Palermo, 1879). It is printed also in
Lowell, Governments and Parties, II., 346-354.
There is a French version in F. R. Dareste, Les
constitutions modernes, 2 vols. (Paris, 1883) I.,
550-560. There is an English translation in Dodd,
Modern Constitutions, II., 5-16, and another, by S.
M. Lindsay and L. S. Rowe, in _Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science_,
Nov., 1894. The Codice Politico Amministrativo
contains a good collection of statutes, ordinances,
and administrative regulations. The most
comprehensive work on Italian constitutional law
which has been written is F. Racioppi and I.
Brunelli, Commento allo statuto del regno, 3 vols.
(Turin, 1909). Among other treatises the following
are of principal value: G. Arangio Ruiz, Storia
costituzionale del regno di Italia, 1848-1898
(Florence, 1898); E. Brusa, Das Staatsrecht des
Koenigreichs Italien (Leipzig, 1892), in
Marquardsen's Handbuch; E. del Guerra,
L'Amministrazione pubblica in Italia (Florence,
1893); and, for briefer treatment, G. Mosca,
Appunti di diritto costituzionale (Milan, 1908) and
I. Tambaro, II diritto costituzionale italiano
(Milan, 1909).]
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