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The Constitution of the Argentine Nation (Spanish: Constitución de la Nación Argentina) is the basic governing document of Argentina, and the primary source of existing law in Argentina. Its first version was written in 1853 by a constitutional assembly which gathered in Santa Fe ; the doctrinal basis was taken in part from the United States ...
John Halstead Coe, officer of Argentina and commander of the Confederation fleet. On May 1, Congress adopted the National Constitution, which in the following months was approved by every Argentine province, including Buenos Aires.
The current Constitution of Argentina dates from 1853. The Argentine Constitution of 1853 was approved in 1853 by almost all of the provincial governments at that moment (currently Argentina is made up of 24 jurisdictions of which 23 are provinces and one is an autonomous city) with the exception of Buenos Aires Province, which remained separate from the Argentine Confederation until 1859.
Rosas was ousted from power in 1852 by Justo José de Urquiza, after the battle of Caseros. Urquiza convened the 1853 Constituent Assembly to write a national constitution. Buenos Aires resisted Urquiza and seceded from the Confederation in 1852, becoming the State of Buenos Aires; the province would return to Argentina in 1861. [2]
It also served as precedent to the sanction of the Argentine Constitution of 1853. The agreement named Justo José de Urquiza as provisional Supreme Director of the Argentine Confederation , established the application of the Pact of 1831 , and set the gathering for a General Constitutional Congress in the city of Santa Fe .
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a timeline of Argentine history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Argentina and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Argentina. See also the ...
This category includes articles on the History of Argentina from 1852 (Battle of Caseros) to 1880 ... Argentine Constitution of 1853; B. State of Buenos Aires; C.
The Argentine Confederation, consisting of thirteen provinces in the interior, and the State of Buenos Aires, formed by the Province of Buenos Aires had divided what today is Argentina since the 1852 Battle of Caseros removed the paramount Governor of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas (who had wielded the sum of public power since 1835, thereby keeping the nation tenuously united).