Perspectives After Two Hundred Years of the Declaration of Independence

Resumo

On the occasion of the celebration of the Bicentennial of Independence the author inquires about one of the purposes that the Congress of Tucuman sought but failed to achieve: institutionalize the country by enacting a constitution, a task that is still a pending issue. The article intends to explain, using tools of political philosophy, some of the tensions that have hampered and still hamper the political agreement: the relationship between human rights and democracy, the tension between representative democracy and participatory democracy, the issue of the place of social rights within the constitutional according, to what is added certain tendency towards anomie of our society.