The relief of the Treccani encyclopedia on the language used in article 38 of the Constitution, when it uses the term “lower”, “is unquestionably true and one cannot fail to subscribe. Each uses the words of his time, necessarily, willingly or unwillingly”. The honorary president of the Accademia della Crusca, Claudio Marazzini, director of the class of moral, historical and philological sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Turin and emeritus professor of History of the Italian language at the University of Eastern Piedmont, declares this
“It is in fact that the constituent fathers (today also ‘fathers and mothers’, according to some), in the words of their time have introduced radical changes in civil life – observes Marazzini – we hope that today’s auditors will be able to affect reality at least with the same effectiveness, since linguistic changes alone are not enough, indeed they are often a way to make a good market. case to the proposal to touch up to the modern ‘the words of the Constitution “.