About Legislative Delegations and the Argentine Constitution: The Case for a Dualist Understanding to Tell Apart "Emergency" from "Administrative" Delegations (Reglamentos delegados de administración y reglamentos delegados de emergencia)

84 Pages Posted: 19 Jul 2006

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Gustavo Arballo

Universidad Nacional de La Pampa

Date Written: July 2006

Abstract

Legislative delegation is a tricky, inherently complex legal issue. Courts have dealt with it through a mix of self restraint and euphemistic dicta that can be hardly understood from a pure normative standpoint. This essay aims to look for a comprehensive understanding of the rise, sidestepping and fall of the nondelegation principle, combining the comparative perspective - with focus on the American constitutional practices and the lines settled by U.S. Supreme Court from cases like Hampton to Chevron - with the correlative local story as told on the argentine rulings that have shaped its reception and paved the way for the eventual inclusion in the constitutional reform of 1994.

According to the dualist theory we will outline here, it should be sketched a fundamental distinction between the more restrictive emergency delegations and the mere administrative delegations. We will try to set up such an analysis of legislative delegations as were arranged in the Argentine Constitution, article 76, in order to ascertain its theoretical as well as its political consequences - seeking to identify a set of standards and criteria that can be handled ssuccessfully and objectively by the courts for the judicial control of delegated regulations.

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Keywords: nondelegation, Chevron, administrative law, constitutional law, delegación legislativa, derecho constitucional, derecho administrativo, argentina

JEL Classification: K20

Suggested Citation

Arballo, Gustavo, About Legislative Delegations and the Argentine Constitution: The Case for a Dualist Understanding to Tell Apart "Emergency" from "Administrative" Delegations (Reglamentos delegados de administración y reglamentos delegados de emergencia) (July 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=916565 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.916565

Gustavo Arballo (Contact Author)

Universidad Nacional de La Pampa ( email )

Coronel Gil 353
Santa Rosa, La Pampa 6300
Argentina

HOME PAGE: http://www.unlpam.edu.ar/

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