2023-07-08 03:20:00
As I suggest in the title, in this new month of July that we are going through, we will surely remember the Declaration of our National Independence, regardless of the work “in totum” that the conclave of representatives will develop. meeting in San Miguel de Tucumán according to the convocation contained in the Provisional Statute for the Direction and Administration of the State of May 5, 1815.
It was so that on March 24, 1816, Congress began to meet in the northern capital and one of its first measures was the formation of a commission of deputies that would establish what would be the issues that would make up the agenda of activities to be observed in the conclave.
Thus, the representatives of Buenos Aires (Esteban Agustín Gascón), Jujuy (Tomás Sánchez de Bustamante) and Charcas (José Mariano Serrano), appointed by the body for this purpose, they got to work and on May 26, 1816 the “plan” or the “note of matters” was submitted to the plenary for consideration. which, in his opinion, should be the reason for treatment by the body, which was approved without objection by his colleagues.
I must make a parenthesis and clarify that, unlike the current model in which the body entrusted with the drafting or modification of a supreme law is a different body from the one in charge of general and current legislative work, in the first moments of our Homeland History, both tasks were confused and the organism summoned for the sanction of a Constitution assumed both roles indistinctly, the Congress of Tucumán was a clear example of this.
Even -correcting myself in the writing of the title-, prior to the dictation of freedom, I had already generated general legislation. After July 1816, its work was even more specific and the body became the Legislative Branch of the newly independent Nation.
Let us not forget that in February 1817, geopolitical and domestic policy issues led to their sessions continuing in the capital city, the one with the port: Santa María de los Buenos Aires, and the cast of components was gradually renewed.
The aforementioned legislative work was profuse and, for better news, I have decided to divide it into matters of a nature: to. institutional, b. public safety c. military d. rent and tax, e. religious and ecclesiastical, f. diplomatic, g. Organization of the Judiciary and h. of instruction and education, without neglecting to note that two constitutional documents were created within it, both arising from the main authorship of Dean Gregorio Funes and Juan José Paso: the Provisional Regulation of 1817 and the Constitution of 1819, this text that marked the end of its existence. , which happened, not without dispute, at the beginning of 1820.
May all this frame our memory and our respectful memory.
* Member of the Board of Historical Studies of Neuquén. President of the Center for Constitutional Studies of Comahue.
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