Enrique Aguilar

Mar 28, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Enrique Cernas Aguilar |Enrique Aguilar |Jack Andrews |Kody W. Cooper |John O. McGinnis

In studies on democracy and constitutionalism, two oft-cited letters exchanged between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1789 and 1790 reveal a perennial debate about constitutional change. Let us summarize the arguments with the Federalist Papers, which have much in common with the Argentine political and economic context. Jefferson sustains that the people, as the holders of sovereignty, should not be bound by inherited norms without the right to revise or repeal them at will.