Federalismo e imperialismo

Abstract

This monograph strews new light over concrete federalism, not glimpsing at it since the perspective of its proverbial ends, but focusing it from the regressive viewpoint, i.e. from its obscured provenance. Therefore, it does not reecho the traditional consensus that the peculiar trait of the federal arrangement is the autonomy of the states before the Union, but it reveals, in the provincial autarchy, the persistence of an elevated degree of dependency of the central government, monopolist of the ultimate command of the federation and conditioned by elitist alliances from the dominant provinces in order to establish their national empire.