Leonetto Amadei (

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, 7 August 1911 –

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, 10 November 1997) was an Italian

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and a politician. Amadei graduated from the

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. As a lawyer, he often took on cases defending the weak, the oppressed, and workers. In 1946 he was nominated by the

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in the elections for the

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, and following his election chosen for the Constitutional Commission ''( :it:Commissione per la Costituzione)'', where he mainly worked on the elaboration of the first part of the

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. Subsequently Amadei was elected

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in the district of

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and

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, again for the Italian Socialist Party, and he also held the post of

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to the

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in the first

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Government. Amadei was re-elected several consecutive times for parliament until 1972, when he became a member of the

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. Amadei was elected President of the same Court on 5 March 1979 and held the chair until 28 June 1981. His name is particularly linked to decision no. 96 of 8 June 1981, which declared the unconstitutionality of the crime of

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, erasing the legal prosecution, because in contrast "with the principle of obligatory nature of the case contained in the absolute reservation of law in criminal cases, enshrined in Article. 25 the Constitution. "Specifically, according to Giovanni Flora, professor of criminal law at the University of Ferrara, the Court sanctioned the vagueness of the wording of the criminal case, "citing the fact of impossibility of verify essentially covered by the present case, however, the impossibility of its assessment with logical-rational criteria, the intolerable risk of arbitrators of the judicial body. " There is the common- sense recognition that some people, especially those who are suggestible, can be manipulated and exploited to a high degree. The effect of such domination is the annihilation of the subject's freedom and self-determination and the consequent negation of his or her personality. The crime of plagio have rarely been prosecuted in Italy, and only one person was ever convicted. In Italy the Court declared plagio unconstitutional found the concept to be imprecise, lacking coherence, and liable to arbitrary application (1981) After few years the President Amadei took part at the scientific conference "Persuasion socially accepted, plagiarism and brainwashed", organized by Mario Di Fiorino, in Forte dei Marmi, in 1989, to discuss the new situation. . According to the commentary by

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in Cultic Studies Journal (1,126 -129 IX) of

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,innthis debate was discussed the whole range of phenomena associated with mental manipulation

Honour

* : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (30 september 1972)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Amadei, Leonetto 1911 births 1997 deaths Italian Socialist Party politicians Judges of the Constitutional Court of Italy Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy) Members of the Constituent Assembly of Italy Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Italy 20th-century Italian lawyers Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic