Through the critical analysis of contemporary methodologies in the field of public law,
Ettore Lombardo Pellegrino finds out their common basic flaw in idealism. All currents of legal
thought during the Eighteen’s century inherit, by the ancient and medieval political philosophy, the
individualistic premise, a process from which constitutional theories are not given appropriate
consideration to the “facts”. But the realistic analysis appears to be the only effective in the
recognition of the democratic process
