
Non Expedit (Latin for `It is not expedient`) were the words with which the Holy See enjoined upon Italian Catholics the policy of abstention from the polls in parliamentary elections. ==History== This papal policy was adopted after the promulgation of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Italy (1861), and the introduction of laws relating to the .....
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(Latin: `it is not expedient`), a late 19th- and early 20th-century policy of the Roman Catholic church that prohibited its Italian members from ...
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