A Tale of Tailings: The Origins of the Argentine Vice Presidency
Throughout the independent history of Latin America, and especially during the decades after the Third Wave of democratization, the vice presidency has manifested itself as an institution of great political relevance. However, the knowledge about the origins of this office is startlingly scarce, and...
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| description | Throughout the independent history of Latin America, and especially during the decades after the Third Wave of democratization, the vice presidency has manifested itself as an institution of great political relevance. However, the knowledge about the origins of this office is startlingly scarce, and usually limited to the idea that it was modeled after the Philadelphia Constitution of 1787. There is actually much more to its genesis than that, and within that territory lie the keys to understand the current performance of this office. But that history has never been investigated thus far. This article aims to fill that gap in the literature for the Argentine case, enriching the scrawny reference to imitation with a fourfold argument based on the following elements: the growing trend towards receiving foreign influences through the period 1810–1853; the growing influence of the United States, which will be evident in the 1853 text and even more so in its reform of 1860; the little importance given to the presidential succession (both in Argentina and in the United States); the haste with which the Constitution of 1853 was written. Resumen A lo largo de la historia independiente de América Latina, y especialmente durante las décadas posteriores a la Tercera Ola de democratización, la vicepresidencia se ha manifestado como una institución de gran relevancia política. Sin embargo, el conocimiento acerca de su origen en asombrosamente escaso, y suele limitarse a la idea de que fue concebida como mera imitación de la Constitución de Filadelfia de 1787. Sin embargo, la génesis de este cargo es más compleja que la simple imitación, y en ese proceso yacen algunas claves para entender el desempeño actual de la vicepresidencia. Pero esa historia no ha sido debidamente investigada hasta ahora. Este artículo pretende llenar ese vacío en la literatura para el caso argentino, enriqueciendo la escuálida referencia a la imitación con un argumento basado en los siguientes cuatro elementos: la creciente tendencia a recibir influencias extranjeras durante el período 1810–1853; la creciente influencia de Estados Unidos, que se hará patente en el texto de 1853 y más aún en la reforma de 1860; la escasa importancia concedida a la sucesión presidencial (tanto en Argentina como en Estados Unidos); la prisa con que se redactó la Constitución de 1853. Palabras clave: Argentina; vicepresidencia; constitución; préstamo legal; sucesión; Estados Unidos |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0f126b571c734c59aae4309de2f9545d2025-02-17T07:15:34ZengStockholm University PressIberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies2002-45092021-11-0150175–8375–8310.16993/iberoamericana.528157A Tale of Tailings: The Origins of the Argentine Vice PresidencyAriel Sribman Mittelman0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7539-4900Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm UniversityThroughout the independent history of Latin America, and especially during the decades after the Third Wave of democratization, the vice presidency has manifested itself as an institution of great political relevance. However, the knowledge about the origins of this office is startlingly scarce, and usually limited to the idea that it was modeled after the Philadelphia Constitution of 1787. There is actually much more to its genesis than that, and within that territory lie the keys to understand the current performance of this office. But that history has never been investigated thus far. This article aims to fill that gap in the literature for the Argentine case, enriching the scrawny reference to imitation with a fourfold argument based on the following elements: the growing trend towards receiving foreign influences through the period 1810–1853; the growing influence of the United States, which will be evident in the 1853 text and even more so in its reform of 1860; the little importance given to the presidential succession (both in Argentina and in the United States); the haste with which the Constitution of 1853 was written. Resumen A lo largo de la historia independiente de América Latina, y especialmente durante las décadas posteriores a la Tercera Ola de democratización, la vicepresidencia se ha manifestado como una institución de gran relevancia política. Sin embargo, el conocimiento acerca de su origen en asombrosamente escaso, y suele limitarse a la idea de que fue concebida como mera imitación de la Constitución de Filadelfia de 1787. Sin embargo, la génesis de este cargo es más compleja que la simple imitación, y en ese proceso yacen algunas claves para entender el desempeño actual de la vicepresidencia. Pero esa historia no ha sido debidamente investigada hasta ahora. Este artículo pretende llenar ese vacío en la literatura para el caso argentino, enriqueciendo la escuálida referencia a la imitación con un argumento basado en los siguientes cuatro elementos: la creciente tendencia a recibir influencias extranjeras durante el período 1810–1853; la creciente influencia de Estados Unidos, que se hará patente en el texto de 1853 y más aún en la reforma de 1860; la escasa importancia concedida a la sucesión presidencial (tanto en Argentina como en Estados Unidos); la prisa con que se redactó la Constitución de 1853. Palabras clave: Argentina; vicepresidencia; constitución; préstamo legal; sucesión; Estados Unidoshttps://account.iberoamericana.se/index.php/su-j-injlacs/article/view/528argentinavice presidencyconstitutionlegal borrowingsuccessionunited states |
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| title | A Tale of Tailings: The Origins of the Argentine Vice Presidency |
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