| Summary: | The purpose of our paper will be to compare and contrast two Argentine laws raised in the year 1902, the law of residence N° 4414 and the electoral reform law N° 4161, both nominated by the Minister of Interior Joaquin V. Gonzalez. While they were initially presented as two totally opposite laws, reviewing deeply parliamentary debates can be traced a logic that presents these two projects involved in a whole, working towards a common goal, correspondent and not contradictory. Thus, our work aims to contribute to the current debate on the Argentine liberal reformism, on the assumption that the series of reforms driven by the early 20th century were completely consistent with each other, although at first glance may they seem contradictory for the dual movement of inclusion/exclusion that they proposed.
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