Word: consulta
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Students of politics were intrigued by a clause in the decree providing that each podesta shall be "advised" by a consulta (council), the members of which "will not be elected but appointed by the provincial prefect, in turn appointed by the State. The terms podesta and consulta are borrowed, of course, from the political vocabulary of the Middle Ages, when the small independent communities of Italy were ruled by a podesta who was advised by a consulta representing the workers' guilds. It is Premier Mussolini's announced intent that the new consultas shall similarly represent the Fascist "unions...
...Government thought to aid the Opposition in making up its mind about its next move. Accordingly, it was proposed in the Consulta to pay Deputies according to the number of sittings of the Chamber which they attended. (Incidentally the cost to the country of paying Deputies would be cut some 6,000,000 lire.) The object was, of course, to deprive the Aventine Deputies of the salaries which they are still drawing...
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