Maurizio Fioravanti faces in this work one of the outstanding issues of modern constitutionalism: individual rights. Based on its conception of public law not as a set of legal rules more or less orderly, but as a product of history, and highlighting the historical and cultural development of what he considers one of the main problems of modern constitutionalism, dimension the author carried out a study on the rights and fundamental freedoms to the fullest extent that deserves a theory of them, with their doctrinal budgets and substantive law, from its origins to the immediate present. The work represents a valuable treaty on general theory of rights and a true manual of modern and contemporary constitutional history.
This edition is expanded with a new chapter, fully developed, dedicated to democratic and constitutional State Constitutions of the twentieth century, and incorporates new constitutions Appendix.