Aux origines de la représentation élective dans l'Italie d'avant l'Unité
Les députés du Parlement napolitain de 1820–1821
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11428300 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valeria Ferrari (0000-0002-1942-233X, Sapienza University of Rome, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-113 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Parliaments Estates and Representation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-6755 • E-ISSN: 1947-248X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02606755.2005.9522210 |
| OpenAlex | W1997979565 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
A few years after the return of the Bourbons to the Neapolitan throne, following the final defeat of Napoleon, profound dissatisfaction grew in a section of southern public opinion, above all the provincial bourgeoisie, at certain plans of the restored government. They faced the continued blocking of their own aspirations to a greater share in the management of the res publica, which was a result of the rigid political and administrative centralization of Napoleonic origin which remained in place in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Because of this deeply rooted discontent, the secret sect of the Carboneria began to spread throughout the kingdom. Its primary political aim was to build the foundations of a constitutional and representative regime. It was the Carboneria which instigated a popular uprising in 1820, forcing Ferdinand I to concede to his subjects what the leaders of the revolt had loudly demanded, the Constitution of Cadiz. Therefore, for the first time in the history of the kingdom, all male citizens aged 21 (except those in domestic service) were entitled to elect the national Parliament endowed with legislative powers. Apart from the property-owning and professional middle classes, it was soldiers and clergy, both groups active in the ranks of the carbonari, who were conspicuously represented in the new assembly. It was therefore composed in large part of individuals whose careers displayed a prominent involvement in the most dangerous phase of the political and institutional crisis which had confronted the kingdom during the previous years. About 70 per cent of those elected had joined in support of the Napoleonic Republic in 1799, had taken part variously in the institutional order established by Napoleon's adherents in the ten years of French rule from 1806, and had in many cases then been affiliated to the Carboneria. Because of their advanced democratic ideals, these people were severely persecuted by the Bourbon authority after the end of the brief constitutional regime
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| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |