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- Title
¿QUÉ ES UNA CONSTITUCIÓN?
- Authors
Marcos Giacomán, Patricio Emilio
- Abstract
The essay aims to draw attention and define the original political character of the concept constitution, notwithstanding that philosophical, legal and even sociological disciplines claim it for themselves, through authors such as Kant, Hegel, Comte, Kelsen or Duverger. Thus the dichotomy between the real and paper constitutions -as Sièyes calls them later- arise almost 500 years after in the political history of nations, with the republics of which the French of 1789 is a symbol for the modern world, against the decay of kingdoms and aristocracies. Their current destiny results from the adoption and adaptation of such documents, made by the free and equals, by the nouveau régime, the oligarchies of wealth that destroy them, which is paradoxically anti-constitutional, since it embody the passion for unlimited economic gain for the unequal few, now universalized with the devastating assistance of her companion and accomplice, the democratic and radical passion for freedom, also licentiousness, whose epitome consists to say and do whatever fantasy they dream. This is the crossroads offered by the pairing of party supremacies of the wealthy and the needy, of the inequality of the luxury of a few individuals and countries that are too rich, and of the arithmetic equality of many individuals and countries that are too poor.
- Publication
Quaestio Iuris (QI), 2018, Vol 11, Issue 1, p461
- ISSN
1807-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12957/rqi.2018.31912