Table of contents
1. Premise: the two risks that one runs when speaking generically of "values of the secular State" - 2. First risk: imagining that the secular State, for this very reason, has values of its own... - 3. (continued):... Second risk : to exclude that the secular State, for this reason, has its own founding values - 4. Insufficiency of the traditional notion of secularism, as a mere separation of the sphere of the sacred from that of the profane - 5. The need to decline the concept of secularism according to sensitivity contemporary, as a guarantee of the "freedom of conscience" of every citizen - 6. The universal fundamental values of the constitutional state. Stellar conception of the Constitution and personalist principle - 7. Secularism, secularism, confessionism: freedom of conscience as the ultimate crest of distinction - 8. Conclusions: the values of the secular state as constitutional values