Il dibattito giuridico sulla proprietà nei lavori della Sacra Congregazione Economica (Stato Pontificio – sec. XIX)

Abstract

The objective of this study is to retrace, through the works of the Sacred Economic Congregation, the two visions regarding the modalities of appropriation of the goods that have been at the root of the political and legal discussions on ownership during the nineteenth century: on the one hand, the medieval voice, which is the expression of a legal mentality that gives to the community a central role; on the other hand, the “modern mentality”, which mainly attributes to the individual the direct and absolute power to affect the res.