Tradition and Revolution

Alberto Lucarelli is a lawyer, a scholar and a militant for the protection of the common good and for a new vision of the law. Full professor of constitutional law at the University of Naples Federico II, he lectures and teaches courses at several foreign Universities including Paris1, Paris2, Montreal, Toulouse, Blumenau, Lyon, Grenoble. Legal consultant to public institutions and social movements: he was the first local administrator in Italy to be delegated authority for public water, writing and defending in the Constitutional Court the referendums for public water. He is one of the founders of the theory of the common good and participatory democracy writing groundbreaking resolutions that are studied throughout Europe.

• 1. Introduction 2. The sense of tradition versus populism 3. Sense of tradition and foundational categories of constitutionalism4. Reactions of civic theology and the sense of tradition between action and universal values5. The sense of tradition as a method and tool for contamination and permeability between historical facts and legal data 6. Conclusions.