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- After the overthrow of Rosas in 1852, Alberdi wrote his major book, Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina (“Bases and Starting Points for the Political Organization of the Argentine Republic”), which was the decisive influence on the Argentine constitution of 1853.
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Juan Bautista Alberdi (August 29, 1810 – June 19, 1884) was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat. Although he lived most of his life in exile in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Chile, he influenced the content of the Constitution of Argentina of 1853.
Aug 25, 2024 · Juan Bautista Alberdi was an Argentine political thinker whose writings influenced the assembly that drew up the constitution of 1853. Alberdi was one of the best-known of the “Generation of ’37,” an intellectual movement of university students who debated politics, social theories, and philosophy.
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May 14, 2018 · The Argentine political theorist Juan Bautista Alberdi (1810-1884) wrote extensively on his nation's political problems. His ideas were incorporated in the Constitution of 1853. Born in Tucumán on Aug. 29, 1810, Juan Bautista Alberdi was orphaned when still a young boy.
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- Early Years
- Alberdi and National Organization
- National Unification
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This remarkable statesman was born the same year that the Argentine independence movement began. At that time the total area of the new nation (more than a million square miles) was populated by fewer than 400,000 people. For this reason, and because the population centers were isolated and remote from one another, Argentines referred to their land...
Alberdi arrived in Buenos Aires from his native Tucumán in 1824. He was a weak, poor youngster who had lost both parents. But he had family connections and had been awarded a scholarship to study in the College of Moral Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, recently founded by Rivadavia. Young Alberdi's ambition was to become a lawyer. Alberd...
By this time Alberdi was a man of note among Argentine exiles. His articles and pamphlets were well known, and his analyses and political opinions were widely commented upon and discussed. He had the opportunity to put them to work when, in 1852, a coalition led by provincial caudillo Justo José Urquiza ousted Rosas and called a convention to draw ...
Another feature of the constitution was the stipulation that Buenos Aires should be the capital of the republic and that the income from customs was to belong to the nation. This was unacceptable to Buenos Aires, and as a result Argentina now split into two separate states: the city of Buenos Aires and its province and the inland Argentine Confeder...
Defeat did not silence Alberdi's critics, who fiercely opposed the diplomatic appointment that the Argentine government proposed to bestow upon him in 1881. It was obvious that his compatriots would never give him the wide recognition that he deserved. Disillusioned and disappointed, Alberdi expatriated himself, living again in France. He died ther...
On Alberdi's ideas, see José Luis Romero, A History of Argentine Political Thought (1963). On Alberdi himself, most of the literature is in Spanish. The best biographical study is Jorge M. Mayer, Alberdi y su tiempo (1963). For a scholarly edition of Alberdi's most important work, see Mayer's edition of Las "Bases" de Alberdi(1969).
Juan Bautista Alberdi combined a liberal vision of statehood and historiography into a brand of constitutionalism. His generation fused legal and historical modes of reasoning, just as European and North American writers did in the 1830s, to create new ideological identities, inflected in part by the Romantic, counter-Enlightenment spirit of ...
the purpose of this paper to analyze the various facets of Alberdi's. thought and to demonstrate that each facet was related to his belief in economic liberalism which was the key to his Idea of Progress. Alberdi's writings disclose a number of minor contradictions in state-.
Aug 29, 2024 · Juan Bautista Alberdi was one of the great thinkers and patriots of our country. With his visionary mind he shaped the foundations of our nation, he lived and died faithful to his ideals of justice, freedom and peace.
