%0 Journal Article %T RASGOS DE LA DEMOCRACIA ARGENTINA Eficacia de las garant¨ªas constitucionales 1983-2008: £¿divisi¨®n de poderes y democracia delegativa versus protecci¨®n de la libertad? %A Ferreyra %A Ra¨²l Gustavo %J Estudios constitucionales %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-52002009000200010 %X the constitutional law captures the democratic decisi¨®n of the people and organizes fundamentally two processes: that of liberty and that of power, both of which pursue with different tools the same aim: to regulate the coexistence of citizens and to foster tolerance. democracy is realized and updated thanks to the processes that shall take place within the regulatory framework stipulated by the federal constitution. the guarantees enable the constitutional development; without them, no constitutional law would be possible. the observation of the 1983-2008 argentine constitutional process has resulted prima facie in a more relevant performance of the divisi¨®n of powers guarantee, though weak and therefore not optimal. %K constitutional law %K democracy %K constitutional processes %K division of powers %K delegative democracy %K constitutional rights %K evolution of the argentine constitutional democracy. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-52002009000200010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en