Abstract
The contribution presents some critical observations in order to the claim to recognize the “rule” of the autonomy and, consequently, of the law. Highlighting the vagueness of the notion of “sovereignty” and its crisis, the Author recovers some paradigms of juridical and political theory of Francesco Gentile to recognize a renewed importance of the classical thought. The contribution makes an attempt to analyze the state crisis with the aim of recognizing the roots of this crisis, especially in verifying the failure to respect the “autonomy” as the origin of the rule of law.