Footnote 561: There is a brief description of the Italian judicial system in Lowell, Governments and Parties, II., 170-178.[(Back)]

Footnote 562: For an arraignment of the extravagance of the local governing authorities see King and Okey, Italy To-day, 267.[(Back)]

Footnote 563: For a brief account of local government in Italy see King and Okey, Italy To-day, Chap. 14. More extended treatment will be found in E. del Guerra, L'Amministrazione pubblica in Italia (Florence, 1893) and G. Greco, Il nuova diritto amministrativo Italiano (Naples, 1896).[(Back)]

Footnote 564: Text in Coglio e Malchiodi, Codice Politico Amministrativo. An English version is printed in Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 16-21.[(Back)]

Footnote 565: Art. 3. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 16.[(Back)]

Footnote 566: Art. 4. Ibid., 17.[(Back)]

Footnote 567: Art. 12. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 19.[(Back)]

Footnote 568: On the Government's use of the exequatur since 1871 see King and Okey, Italy To-day, 253.[(Back)]

Footnote 569: By act of July 12, 1871, articles 268-270 of the Italian penal code were so modified as to render ecclesiastics liable to imprisonment of from six months to five years, and to fines of from one thousand to three thousand lire, for spoken or written attacks upon the state, or for the incitement of disorder.[(Back)]

Footnote 570: King and Okey, Italy To-day, 255.[(Back)]