Federalismo: ventura y desventura de la influencia mexicana de un ideal ilustrado en el Chile de los albores de la República

Abstract

Through the study of the social, economical and legal history of Chile, the author makes us understand the origins of federalism and liberalism in that country. With a clear influence of the american model, and the mexican constitutional model, Chile writes, in several occasions, its Constitution. It is interesting to see how the Mexican model, so criticized in Mexico, was the example the members of the constitutional congress took to write their constitution in 1833, keeping very much in mind that some of the key factors were different in both countries (geography, demography, background). Thanks to the rigorous work of two major authors, Galdames and Carrasco, we conclude that there was a copy of the (mexican) substance, but a creative work in the shape of the redaction of the Constitution in Chile.