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The Argentine Constitution, especially after the 1994 Constitutional Reform, established a federal structure of four orders of government: Federal, Provinces, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and Municipal. Also, Provinces have the possibility to create regions for economic and social development. In this first point, some characteristics are highlighted, such as the tendency towards centralization. The autonomous municipal regime is analyzed in the second point. The municipal regime was inserted in the original Constitution of 1853, but throughout the history there has been a debate about its nature, ranging from autarchy to autonomy. In the 1994 Constitutional Reform, municipal autonomy was recognized, with five aspects: institutional, political, administrative, financial, and economic. In the third point, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires is studied. It is a City-State, with a nature similar to that of the Provinces and is represented in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate of the Nation. Its own Constitution was drafted in 1996. The phenomenon of metropolitan areas of Buenos Aires and Cordoba are briefly considered, in the fourth point. And, finally, in the fifth point, the transcendent relationship between the autonomous municipal regime and the federal republic and the role of cities in the globalized world are reflected.
The objective of the study is the descriptive analysis and assessment of the constitutional reform 25 years after its approval. The legitimacy of the reform will be considered, as well as the ideas that inspired it, the constitutional design used, the modernization produced at the level of global comparative constitutionalism and the high degree of non-compliance with the reform. It will be highlighted that the reform had the highest degree of consensus in our history and that, in addition, it carried out the greatest task of constituent reform, both in aspects related to rights, as well as in the organization of power and, in particular, in its decentralization. Among the ideas forces, I will emphasize the strengthening of federalism and the deepening of the decentralization of power, in the philosophical-political conception of republican and federal democracy, which is the quintessence of our political regime. With the experience of having played in this Convention, I will discuss the constitutional design used with specific analysis of what happened in each aspect over these 25 years, which will demonstrate the high degree of non-compliance with this federal project and other aspects of reform. Finally, I will make references to proposals to try to change this reality of the anomie that characterizes us, anticipated years ago by Carlos Santiago Nino and demonstrated in the 2 Surveys on Constitutional Culture, which I directed together with Daniel Zovatto and Manuel Mora y Araujo, the first of 2004 and the second with Zovatto and Eduardo Fidanza, of 2014. The method will be inductive and deductive, interdisciplinary and realistic, as I do in my books and studies of public law, both constitutional law, federalism, provincial constitutionalism and municipal law. ; Fil: Hernández, Antonio María. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Derecho. Buenos Aires, Argentina ; Fil: Hernández, Antonio María. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales. Cátedra Derecho Público Provincial y Municipal. Córdoba, Argentina ; Fil: Hernández, Antonio María. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales. Cátedra Derecho Constitucional. Córdoba, Argentina ; Tema: A veinticinco años de la Reforma Constitucional / Coordinador Alberto R. Dalla Vía .-- Doctrina : La reforma constitucional de 1994. -- Resumen: El objetivo del estudio es el análisis descriptivo y la valoración de la reforma constitucional a 25 años de su sanción. Se considerará la legitimidad de la reforma, las ideas fuerza que la inspiraron, el diseño constitucional utilizado, la modernización producida a nivel del constitucionalismo comparado mundial y el alto grado de incumplimiento de la reforma. Se pondrá de relieve que la reforma tuvo el mayor grado de consenso en nuestra historia y que, además, realizó la mayor tarea constituyente reformadora, tanto de los aspectos vinculados a los derechos, como a la organización del poder y en particular, a su descentralización. Entre las ideas fuerzas, destacaré la del fortalecimiento del federalismo y la profundización de la descentralización del poder, en la concepción filosófica-política de la democracia republicana y federal, que es la quintaesencia de nuestro régimen político. Con la experiencia de haberme desempeñado en dicha Convención, expondré sobre el diseño constitucional utilizado con análisis específico de lo acontecido en cada aspecto a lo largo de estos 25 años, lo que demostrará el alto grado de incumplimiento de dicho proyecto federal y de otros aspectos de la reforma. Finalmente, haré referencias a propuestas para intentar cambiar esta realidad de la anomia que nos caracteriza, anticipada hace años por Carlos Santiago Nino y demostrada en las 2 encuestas de cultura constitucional, que he dirigido junto a Daniel Zovatto y Manuel Mora y Araujo, la primera de 2004 y la segunda junto a Zovatto y Eduardo Fidanza, de 2014. El método será inductivo y deductivo, de carácter interdisciplinario y realista, como lo hago en mis libros y estudios de derecho público, tanto de derecho constitucional, federalismo, constitucionalismo provincial y derecho municipal.
Introducción / Antonio María Hernández --. - El federalismo en emergencia y su necesaria reconstrucción / María Angélica Gelli --. - El Congreso y el federalismo / Juan Fernando Armagnague --. - El Congreso Nacional frente a los conflictos federales: ¿protagonista o actor de reparto? / Pablo Riberi --. - El federalismo y el poder de policía / Susana G. Cayuso --. - La cuestión capital: asignatura pendiente. La reformulación del federalismo argentino / Humberto Quiroga Lavié --. - Los recursos naturales tras la reforma constitucional de 1994 / Pablo Luis Manili --. - Integración regional ad extra y federalismo intraestatal: ¿compaginación o antagonismo? / Víctor Bazán --. - Las provincias y sus relaciones con la Nación y los municipios en el federalismo argentino / María Gabriela Abalos --. - Servicios públicos en el constitucionalismo provincial / Alejandro Pérez Hualde
