the government. The others were Quinto Quintieri and Pietro Mancini. Fausto Gullo was the first to propose the establishment of the Constituent Assembly during the first meeting of the first Council of Ministers of liberated Italy, as reported in his diary of those days. As a deputy of the Constituent Assembly he contributed to the elaboration and affirmation of some values of the Fundamental Charter, in particular by discussing the following topics in the Assembly: the definition of the autonomy of the judiciary and, consequently, of the composition of the Constitutional Court; the articles 29 and 30 about the family (he was the first to speak of equality between legitimate and natural children; his opposition to regionalism and for the construction of an Italy of municipalities. He held the position of Minister of Agriculture until 1946, in the Second Government of Alcide De Gasperi, when he was replaced in Agriculture by the Christian Democrat landowner Antonio Segni and was appointed Minister of Grace and Justice in place of Palmiro Togliatti. Between the summer of 1944 and the spring of 1945, as Minister of Agriculture of the Bonomi Government, he proposed to the Council of Ministers, seeing them approved with a few modifications, some decrees that had the ambition to create "pre-reforming" agricultural legislation. Elected deputy to the Constituent Assembly, he confirmed his seat in the Chamber of Deputies until 1972, when he retired from active political life. Due to the bond of solidarity that had characterized his political action, he was always remembered as the "minister of the peasants". References External links Fausto Gullo 1887 births 1974 deaths Agriculture ministers of Italy Bonomi II Cabinet Bonomi III Cabinet Italian Communist Party politicians Italian Ministers of Justice