Principio di eguaglianza e razza, tra dibattito costituente e giurisprudenza costituzionale

The paper is basically focused on the meaning of the constitutional rule which provides the prohibition of racial discrimination in the italian legal system. The A. aims to demonstrate the opportunity, in a cultural and political sense, but first of all, in a juridical point of view, the necessity to keep the word race into the Italian Constitution. And this, not only because it has been exactly the common opinion of the representatives in the Constitutional Assembly in 1946/47, when was rejected the idea that a law would establish a racial discrimination, but also because the Constitutional Court can nullify each statute or law, which contains this kind of offence.