The current Latin American experience with regard to form of government. A comparative overview of constitutional texts

Abstract

Abstract: The Latin American experience with regard to form of government. A comparative overview of constitutional texts – On the basis of the essential structural elements derived from the comparative analysis of constitutions, the research aims to establish whether the constitutional Latin American experience with regard to the form of government, characterized by a President elected by universal suffrage with significant powers and increasingly characterized by the meticulous rationalization of the relationships between the governing bodies and political direction, connotes a peculiar autonomous form of government including all constitutional systems of the area, or whether a distinction must be made between different groups of models, or finally whether these constitutional systems, together with the US one, can abstractly be part of a common presidential model.

Keywords: Main characteristics of presidential form of government; The Executive in Latin American constitutions; Presidential legislative powers in Latin American constitutions; Presidential reelection in Latin America; Abusive constitutionalism