En esta encuesta un grupo de profesores de Derecho Constitucional contestan un conjunto de preguntas sobre el principio de cooperación y su papel en los Estados descentralizados en general, y en el Estado autonómico en concreto; sobre el desigual desarrollo de los distintos tipos de relaciones de cooperación y las propuestas para mejorarlos; sobre ...
Federal intervention has been around for more than 200 years since it first appeared in the US constitution of 1787, whose clear influence is seen in the way it was received in the constitutions of federal countries in Latin America. During this time, the institution has been used and abused in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. It has moved beyond its ...
The extraordinary and “last ratio” character that characterizes state coercion determines the procedure of this modality of Law of exception, which does not respond to ordinary conflict resolution procedures between the State and the Autonomous Communities. From the time the requirement is neglected by the President of the Community to the approval...
Constitutional autonomy of subnational units, characterized by the competence to elaborate their own Constitution, is commonly defined as one of the central elements of the federal State. The analysis of the various federations that exist today reveals that not all of them recognize this subnational competence or do so with several limitations. Eve...
The article examines four of the Confederation debated projects in Venezuela in 1811 with the purpose of showing the evolution that occurred in the way of conceiving the confederal pact. An evolution that shows how the eventual adaptation-adoption of confederal / federal “model” of the United States was a rhetorical strategy through which different...
This paper deals with the question regarding the constitutionality of some articles contained in the Federal Law n.º 13089/2015 (Statute of the metropolis). The first question is about the viability of the Federation (União) in setting up general requirements for all federate states to institute the administrative regional figures. The second quest...
En este artículo se estudian comparativamente los nuevos estatutos de autonomía aprobados desde 2006 en España, en relación con las normas institucionales básicas de otros Estados federales (Estados Unidos, México, Alemania, Austria, Suiza e Italia). Junto con el objetivo evidente de enmarcar los nuevos estatutos aprobados en España dentro de un co...
L�1 d�agost de 2009 va entrar en vigor l�anomenada segona reforma constitucional del federalisme alemany, iniciada pel govern de gran coalició entre la Unió Cristianodemòcrata (CDU) i el Partit Socialdemòcrata (SPD), presidit per la cancellera federal, Angela Merkel. Es tracta d�una modificació de la Llei fonamental que afecta, sobretot, l�entramat...
¿Is there in the Fundamental Law of Bonn an «obscure site»? The author proposes that question in the beginning of this paper, in which he shows some characteristics of the Fundamental Law, that have contributed to the positive evaluation that we make of it after sixty years of success, but, in the same time, they contain the germ of the present def...
Se estudia la obra de Eugenio María de Hostos, Moral Social, como componente del discurso político del apóstol de Puerto Rico.
