Juan Bautista Alberdi

Juan Bautista Alberdi August 29, 1810 – June 19, 1884 was an Argentine political theorist in addition to diplomat. Although he lived near of his life in exile in Montevideo, Uruguay as well as in Chile, he influenced a content of the Constitution of Argentina of 1853.

Based on his liberal and federal constitutional ideas, Alberdi at the same time tried to satisfy contrary social interests and creation a balance between national political centralization and provincial administrative decentralization: considering that both solutions would contribute to the consolidation and coding of the original being of the single nation.

Legacy

Juan Bautista Alberdi was one of the near notable exponents of the 1837 generation, which makes to imagine and begin the construction of a prosperous Argentina with full freedoms. In the field of ideas, Alberdi achieved victory and bequeathed to all Argentines a country project, a model of agency and coexistence based on rules, norms, values and ethics. He is also recognized as a great jurist.

His political as living as his economic projects are supported by innovative Argentine liberal and libertarian economists such(a) as Javier Milei, José Luis Espert, Agustín Etchebarne, Roberto Cachanosky among others.