Reflexiones sobre el principalísimo y el neoconstitucionalismo la llamada constitucionalizacion de los derechos
| Autor | Juan Carlos Cassagne |
| Cargo | Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) |
| Páginas | 105-121 |
Cassagne, J. Reflections on principlism and neo-constitutionalism
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Revista Facultad de Jurisprudencia Especial 75 Aniversario PUCE
Reflections on principlism and Neoconstitutionalism.
The so-called constitutionalisation of rights
Reflexiones sobre el principalísimo y el Neoconstitucionalismo
La llamada constitucionalizacion de los derechos
Juan Carlos Cassagne
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina
City: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Original article (research)
RFJ, No. 9 Especial 75 años PUCE, pp. 105 -121, ISSN: 2588-0837
ABSTRACT: This analysis article describes the process
of constitutionalization of law and argues around how
neoconstitutionalism ends up appropriating the technique
of general principles (sometimes deforming its meaning),
whatever the philosophical sign of its cultivators (inclusive or
exclusive positivists). The article states that it has occurred and
continues to occur within inclusive positivism and analytical
jurisprudence.
KEYWORDS: jurisprudence, legal system, general principles,
public law.
RESUMEN: Este artículo describe el proceso de
constitucionalización del derecho y argumenta en torno a cómo
el neoconstitucionalismo termina apropiándose de la técnica de
los principios generales (deformando en ocasiones su sentido),
cualquiera sea el signo filosófico de sus cultores (positivistas
incluyentes o excluyentes). Se asevera que a grandes rasgos esto
ha ocurrido y continúa ocurriendo en el seno del positivismo
incluyente y en el de la jurisprudencia analítica.
PALABRAS CLAVE: filosofía jurídica, sistema jurídico,
principios generales, derecho público.
DOI 10.26807/rfj.v2i9.404
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Cassagne, J. Reflections on principlism and neo-constitutionalism
JEL CODE: K, K0
INTRODUCTION
The history of law does not only fulfil the function of
explaining and unravelling the past of institutions. Its functions
are multiple and almost all of them have the effect of raising the
culture of jurists and professionals who practise law or cultivate
the law, giving greater rigour to the legal language they use in
their respective professions.
If we consider that law, conceived as the set of
prescriptions that govern a given system, is a social product
and, therefore, dynamic and adaptable to a given reality,
its epistemology needs to accommodate its philosophical
dimension, since, to grasp and understand the essence and
meaning of the present, it is always necessary to know the past.
The Enlightenment and the methods imposed by
the encyclopaedic movement overlooked, for some time, the
knowledge of the origins or sources of law and the history of the
philosophy that nourishes it, pretending to enclose it, once and
for all, in Codes that were supposed to represent the triumph
of rationalism based on an immanent philosophy that closed
access to the principles of natural law, even though it must
be recognised that the positive consecration of many of those
principles contributed to the realisation of justice in human
relations.
In turn, German romanticism, which emerged
as a reaction to enlightenment rationalism, generated an
authoritarian political ideology based on the exacerbation of
national sentiments, sowing the seed that germinated with
the unleashing of barbarism and generalised violence, through
Nazism and fascism, whose actions were based on Carl Schmitt’s
decisionist doctrine, which can be summarised as the rule of force
and the will of the ruler (the leader) over reason and contempt
for the enemy. In parallel, and with a common philosophical
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