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...President Andrew Jackson declared his displeasure at the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Worcester v. Georgia in 1832.* Last week, in the face of similar intransigence on the part of Demo-Christian Premier Antonio Segni and his government, peppery, 78-year-old Enrico de Nicola, president of Italy's fledgling Constitutional Court, struck back with an effectiveness that would have won a smile of approval from stern old John Marshall...
Abrupt Departure. Outraged by the government's brazen persistence in illegality, mustachioed Enrico de Nicola, onetime (1946-48) Provisional President of Italy, made his countermove last week: he abruptly resigned as Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court. "The government," he declared angrily, "has shown scant appreciation of the court's work." Then, refusing to talk to anyone, De Nicola withdrew to his oleander-shrouded villa overlooking the Bay of Naples...
This was serious. Revered Enrico de Nicola, a Senator for life, was the principal guarantor of the new court's integrity. Also, his resignation was bound to give rise to the cry that the Segni government was fostering "fascism." In dismay, Premier Segni hastily called his cabinet into session to throw together draft legislation revamping the public security code. Simultaneously, government emissaries, including Premier Segni himself, hurried down to Naples to try and persuade De Nicola to withdraw his resignation...
...longer in fear of an armed Communist takeover, the Parliament last Decemher finally brought the court into being, under pressure from President Giovanni Gronchi. On the evening of the day he was inaugurated as president of the court, 78-year-old Enrico de Nicola called his colleagues into session to consider several score of cases involving alleged violations of constitutional rights...
Last week, ruling simultaneously on 29 of the cases, De Nicola and his colleagues unanimously decided that Article 113 of the police law, which requires police permits for all signs, posters, and even "inscriptions carved into rocks," is a violation of the constitutional guarantee of free speech. In so doing, the court made clear that it had only begun to strike down unconstitutional laws, flatly urged the government to begin a wholesale revamping of Italian legal codes on its own. Predicted one happy lawyer: "In ten years Italy will be a really democratic country...