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No discussion of the debate on the Lateran Pacts before the Constituent Assembly can be appreciated adequately, if some background, however condensed, is not presented. The Pacts were born of one of the longest and most difficult impasses that ever existed between Church and State in Italy — the questione romana. 1 Beginning with the coup de théâtre of September 20,1870,2 this question did not end until February II,1929, when Signor Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri severally signed the three protocols constituting the Pacts of Lateran.3
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See Salvatore Lerner, “Sovranita della Chiesa e sovranita dello Stato nella dottrina generale del diritto,” La Civilta Cattolica, Vol. I (March 15, 1947), p. 468
Italy. Istituto Centrale di Statistica, Annuario Statistico Italiano, Ser. 5, Vol. I (1944–1948), pp. 152–153.
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Bucci, P.V. (1969). The Lateran Pacts and the Constituent Assembly. In: Chiesa e Stato. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0491-1_2
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