Italy's postwar anti-fascist
Constitution is a beacon and the values it enshrines must not be
taken for granted, the new head of the supreme Cassation Court
and its first female chief justice, Margherita Cassano, said
after her appoitment Wednesday.
"At a time when our human relations are fraying and there is a
fracture between the community and the institutions, it is
important to be aware that the Constitution is our lighthouse
and our point of reference", Cassano said by telephone at the
'Tindari Baglione Prize' ceremony held in Florence.
"The values that our Charter affirms, from respect for the equal
dignity of persons, as individuals and in their relations with
others, to the principle of equality, both formal and
substantial, we must not take for granted", she said.
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