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Between Order and Liberty: Juan Bautista Alberdi and the Intellectual Origins of Argentine Constitutionalism

2007; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 42; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/lar.2007.0015

1542-4278

Jeremy Adelman,

Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

This essay explores the intellectual foundings of Argentine constitutionalism from the 1830s to the 1850s. Focusing on the writings of Juan Bautista Alberdi and some of his critics, it argues that Argentine constitutionalism had liberal roots but invoked arguments that could neither bring unity to the state-building coalition nor resolve some basic tensions within the framework of national sovereignty.