Two constitutional moments in Juan Bautista Alberdi

Between Théodore Jouffroy and Benjamin Constant

Authors

  • Mercedes Betria National University of Rosario // CIUNR (Rosario, Santa Fe Argentina)
  • Gabriela Rodríguez University of Buenos Aires // CONICET (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35305/cf2.vi15.44

Keywords:

law, politics, philosophy, morality, neutral power

Abstract

We analyze two constitutional moments in the work of Juan Bautista Alberdi from his readings of Théodore Jouffroy and Benjamin Constant. In the first case, we emphasize the moral philosophical conception of law as well as the writing model that was Jouffroy as publicist for the "young" Alberdi of 1837. In the second, we analyze the way in which, in 1852, he thought, as Constant did, the political authority from the various theories of "neutral power" that Alberdi embodied in the presidential figure of the Constitution of Argentina adopted in 1853.

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Betria, M., & Rodríguez, G. (2020). Two constitutional moments in Juan Bautista Alberdi: Between Théodore Jouffroy and Benjamin Constant. Cuadernos Filosóficos / Segunda Época, (15). https://doi.org/10.35305/cf2.vi15.44 (Original work published December 23, 2019)

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