Appunti per una semantica della rappresentanza politica: note ‘libere’ dall’incontro sassarese su “La rappresentanza nel diritto pubblico”

The paper aims to give an account of the issues of "representation in public law" treated in the Sassari’s meeting of 6 November 2014, imagining to continue the dialogue with the speakers. First, the constitutionalist Caretti has performed an attempt to outline the evolution (which proved involution) of the concept of political representation from the threshold of modernity up to the State Constitutional contemporary. Second, the Romanist Lobrano had a radical criticism of the logic of representation, that opposed the model of constitutionalism-medieval English or parliamentary-representative to the Roman-republican model, which proposes the recovery of the contract societas against the deception of the person ficta vel repraesentata. Finally, the political philosopher Mura looked to political representation as a modern form of political legitimacy of the authority and underlined the existence two conceptions of representation in the history of Western political thought: the replacement of people against the replacement of will.
The author tries to rethink the representation, which also today shapes the deliberativist democratism and the Rousseau’s constitutionalism, as a force of quality 'active' than the social pluralism, which gives form to the ideas (people, nation .. ) that did not pre-exist.