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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 ...
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]
The Argentine Constitution of 1853, the new republic's first constitution, does not contain any explicit references to citizenship, though as a product of its framers liberal thought it is very universalist in spirit, speaking of broad, universal rights that apply to all men.
Delegates swear allegiance to the 1854 Constitution of Buenos Aires. The State of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Estado de Buenos Aires) was a secessionist republic resulting from the overthrow of the Argentine Confederation government in the Province of Buenos Aires on 11 September 1852. The State of Buenos Aires was never explicitly recognized by the ...
Juan Manuel de Rosas, former Governor of Buenos Aires Province Justo José de Urquiza, governor of Entre Rios during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas. After the 1819 and 1826 constitutions failed, rejected by the interior provinces due to their Unitarian Party tendencies, the Federal Party (federales) rose to power in every provincial government.
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 .
From 1852 until 1930 Argentina experienced liberal government with first oligarchic and then democratic tendencies. [18] From 1852 to 1916 the government, run by the landowning elite, controlled the outcome of elections by committing fraud. This was contested by the rising middle-class and working-class sectors.