The centralized nature of the Italian State was lost thanks to the Republican Constitution of 1948, which on the one hand led to the decentralization of many state powers towards local and professional bodies (articles 5, 18, 39, 49, 114) and from the other provided for the possibility of "limitations of sovereignty" by supranational bodies (art. 11). These changes have ended up affecting the role of the State Attorney, called today to operate not only in the relations between the administration and the private citizen, but also in the relations between the state administration and local autonomies, as well as between the former and the European Communities. However, despite the wide debate on the point - a debate still open today - the constituent legislature did not include the State Attorney's Office among the bodies of constitutional significance, believing that the failure to provide a specific constitutional protection would not have prejudiced the content substantial of the activity carried out by it, albeit by virtue of attributions given by an ordinary law.