Intervenciión del eestado y derechos sociiales. ttransformmaciiones en el pensamimiento jurídiico chiileno en la era de la cuestiión sociial, 1880-1925

authored by

Manuel Bastías Savedra

Abstract

This article studies the changes in legal thought, which preceded the constitutional recognition of social rights in Chile. By looking at documents produced between 1880 and 1925, it evaluates how legal scholars perceived the relation between State and welfare. The objective is to illustrate the formation of a critical legal movement, which questioned the normative foundations of the nineteenth-century State, by representing it as a guardian of property rights. This critique of law led to a reevaluation of the legal system, making the State assume the correction of economic inequalities as one of its main functions. The recognition of social rights in the Constitution of 1925 was the culmination of a longer process of legal change.

External Organisation(s)

Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin)
Universidad Austral de Chile

Type

Article

Journal

Historia (Chile)

Volume

48

Pages

11-42

No. of pages

32

ISSN

0073-2435

Publication date

2015

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cultural Studies, History, History and Philosophy of Science