Democracy defence act: law and history in the parliamentary debates of the transition (1983-1984)

Authors

  • Adrián Velázquez Ramírez Escuela de Humanidades – Universidad Nacional de San Martín (EH-UNSAM)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14409/es.2021.2.e0007

Keywords:

transition to democracy, Argentina, democracy defence act, law, conceptual history

Abstract

The article discusses parliamentary debates on the «law on the protection of constitutional order and democratic life» (Law 23077), adopted on 9 August 1984 during the government of Raúl Alfonsín (1983-1989). The aim is to investigate the senses and representations that served as a justification framework, as well as in the legal rhetoric used to turn democracy into a protected legal good. In this way, the article seeks to offer a glimpse into the changes in legal discourse during the transition to democracy. On the basis of what we have called as a 'legislator's phenomenology', it is particularly relevant how the relationship between the proposed law and historical experience is established in parliamentary debates

Published

2021-12-15

How to Cite

Velázquez Ramírez, A. (2021). Democracy defence act: law and history in the parliamentary debates of the transition (1983-1984). Estudios Sociales, 61(2), e0007. https://doi.org/10.14409/es.2021.2.e0007