Laicità dello Stato e laicità del diritto

Abstract

The principle of laicality of the State is, historically, a direct affirmation's consequence of liberal constitutionalism and is closely linked to a strong protection of freedom of religion, from which, however, must be conceptually distinct. It has taken different connotation, in France, in the United States, in Italy, in national and European law. Its root seems to be found in good Roman citizen's secular officium, according to the formula of Caecilius Statius, that “homo homini deus, si suum officium sciat”.