State and Constitutions in Paraguay: an analysis of the Magna Carta of 1844, 1870 and 1940

Resumen

This work proposes a comparative study of constitutional texts from three different but consecutive moments in the political history of Paraguay. We inquire into the Constitutions of 1844, 1870 and 1940, being the first the pioneer, the second the result of an occupation process because Paraguay was defeated in the War against the Triple Alliance, and the last one a legal tool that helped to the permanence of authoritarian and dictatorial governments. This constitutional exegesis was carried out from four specific axes that will seek to identify the forms that the State presented in those Constitutions, both in the effects they wanted to generate when they were put into effect, and in the situation framework that it expresses when it is sanctioned. These axes are: the political organization of power, recognized social subjects and assigned rights, the relationship with the Church, and the design of a productive, economic or private property matrix.