Corti costituzionali e opinione pubblica: un problema di legittimazione

Abstract

Constitutional courts and public opinion: a problem of legitimacy – Once upon a time, the Courts spoke only with their own judgments. Today they speak continuously, and directly, with public opinion. It is a drastic paradigm shift. On the genesis, the forms and, above all, the purposes of this transformation, it is right to question, because the suspicion is that all this has much to do with a need and an urgency for legitimacy that wasn’t felt once, for reasons that have strictly to do with the transformations of the form of State.

Keywords: Consensus; Disintermediation; Judicial review of legislation; Legitimacy; Public opinion.