Political Law and controversies about sovereignty. Argentina, 1910-1940

Abstract

The article focuses on the courses of Political Law, created in different Argentine universities from the 1910s. These courses meant a renewal in fields such as the Theory of the State and the History of Political
Ideas. The specific object of the paper are the conceptions that prominent professors of Political Law developed in texts and courses on sovereignty and its relationship with freedom. The article states that these reflections are original and relevant evidence on two topics: how the characteristics and foundations
of the State were taught in the Argentine university, and what diagnoses were made about the features and crisis of liberalism in Argentine political thought between 1910 and 1940.