Introduction: Gherardo Colombo’s Concern for the Democratic State under the Rule of Law: A Work in Progress

pp 5-22

Why?

pp 23-24

1 - An Imaginary Country

pp 25-28

Contents

pp 29-30

Part I - The Ambiguities of Justice

pp 31-32

2 - Law and Justice

pp 33-33

3 - Laws Differing in Time and Space

pp 34-35

4 - ‘Justice’ is an Ambiguous Word

pp 36-38

5 - Law Comes From God

pp 39-42

6 - Law is Just If It is ‘Natural’

pp 43-44

7 - Law is Just When It Exists

pp 45-45

8 - From Subject to Citizen

pp 46-48

Part II - Horizontal Society and Vertical Society

pp 49-50

9 - The Vertical Society

pp 51-56

10 - The Horizontal Society

pp 57-63

11 - Structure of the Two Models

pp 64-64

12 - Consequences of the Vertical Society

pp 65-69

13 - Consequences of the Horizontal Society

pp 70-75

14 - Fundamental Rights According to the Two Models

pp 76-78

15 - Sanctions According to the Vertical Model

pp 79-83

16 - The Consequences to Offences in the Horizontal Society

pp 84-90

17 - Victim and Offender

pp 91-94

18 - Limits to Personal Liberty

pp 95-96

19 - Vertical Society, Horizontal Society, Ideology and Religion

pp 97-100

Part III - Towards a Horizontal Society

pp 101-102

20 - An Attempt to Justify Law at the End of the Second Millennium

pp 103-105

21 - The Limits of International Rules

pp 106-108

22 - An Attempt at Creating a Horizontal Society: the Italian Constitution

pp 109-110

23 - The Person Comes First

pp 111-113