Abstract

AJMECHET, Sabrina. The political conceptions of the constitutional reform of 1949: the visions of Peronism and the Unión Cívica Radical. Trab. soc. [online]. 2018, n.30, pp.25-45. ISSN 1514-6871.

The 1949 constitution, approved under Juan Domingo Perón’s first presidency, maintained the principles of representative government: it did not introduce corporatist principles of representation or modify the tripartite division of powers. Nevertheless, it laid the dogmatic bases and dealt with the institutional articulation of a type of government different from that imagined in 1853. Under the premise that it was necessary to overcome the deficiencies of the representative-liberal regime, the Peronist goverment proposed a constitutional design based on an organicist visión of politics. This redefinition produced substantial modifications both in the idea of representation and in the very definition of democracy. From the analysis of the positions expresed during the debate of the Constitutional Reform by the Peronists’ and Radicals’ legislators we will analize some basic political conceptions: How did they imagine political representation? How did they define democracy? How did they define the characteristics of a good goverment?

Keywords : Argentinian Political History; Peronism; Constitutional Reforms; Politica Concepts.

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