Francesco Paolo Bonifacio (3 May 1923 in

Castellammare di Stabia Castellammare di Stabia (; nap, Castiellammare 'e Stabbia) is a '' comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania region, in southern Italy. It is situated on the Bay of Naples about southeast of Naples, on the route to Sorrento. History ...

– 14 March 1989 in

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) was an Italian politician, jurist and academic. He served as Minister of Justice and

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of the

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Biography

Bonifacio was born in

, near

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

. He was one of the youngest

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s of

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at the

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, University of Bari, Bari and University of Naples, Naples, a position he held until February 1963, when he was elected by the Parliament of Italy, Italian Parliament as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy, Italian Constitutional Court. He was then elected as the eighth President of such Court from February 1973 to October 1975. In 1964 Bonifacio was awarded Italy's highest honor: the Republic's Grand Cross Knighthood (Cavaliere di Gran Croce della Repubblica). In 1975 Bonifacio was elected to the Italian Senate, and served as Minister of Justice from February 1976 until March 1979. Bonifacio presided over two Senate commissions which considered and promoted constitutional amendments. From 1987 he began to teach Constitutional Justice at the Sapienza University of Rome. He died in 1989 in his home in Rome, due to a tumor.L' ADDIO A BONIFACIO Il cattolico che anticipo' la legge sull' aborto
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1923 births 1989 deaths People from Castellammare di Stabia 20th-century Italian jurists Italian jurists Italian Ministers of Justice Academic staff of the University of Naples Federico II Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome Members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy) Judges of the Constitutional Court of Italy Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Italy 20th-century Italian judges 20th-century Italian politicians 20th-century jurists {{Italy-law-bio-stub