Racionalismo y constitucionalismo en Hispanoamérica. Hipótesis y tesis sobre la formación, el desarrollo y la crisis del constitucionalismo en el mundo hispánico

Authors

  • Miguel Ayuso Profesor ordinario de la Facultad de Derecho (ICADE) de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid
  • Juan Fernando Segovia Investigador del CONICET. Profesor titular ordinario de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Mendoza

Abstract

The core matter the article stands is that the contemporary crisis of the constitutionalism in general and the specific case of the Hispanic American constitutionalism, demands a critical study of its formation and development. This assumption leds the authors to oppose the typical organizational model of the constitutional rationalism to the concrete historic constitution of the Spains, and to compare them through the ideas of order and organization, civic liberties and human rights, societal plurality and pluralism, public religiosity and State laicism, decentralization and power concentration. The article finally suggests that the dichotomy between the public and the private, the transformation of political representation into the Party State, the strengthening of the State linked to nationalism and the lost of the social autonomy because the State sovereignty, can be explained because of the success of the legal and political positivism.    

Keywords:

constitzrtion, constitutionalism, State, Hispanic America