The Haitian Revolution And The Beginnings Of Constitutionalism: The Racial Question And The Legal And Political Subject

Authors

  • Nilda Garay Montañez Universidad de Alicante

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i15.405

Keywords:

Revolutionary Constitutionalism, citizen, constitutionalism, subject, racial discrimination, Mulattoes, Negro, Haiti, France, United States

Abstract

In the beginning of Constitutionalism, the legal and political subject already had appeared as the center of imputations and rights. Capitalism and constitutionalism made the existence of this leading actor of Modernity possible.
The concept of this subject responded to the model of the white and European man, with capacities of reason and wealth. Excluded from this abstraction were women, Mulattoes, Indians and Negroes. The liberal values of the beginning of constitutionalism did not reach these “others”. However, the latter made use of the very principles of liberal constitutionalism to claim the same rights as the white man.
The mulatto and black population of Haiti is the object of this study. “Haitian Revolutionary Constitutionalism” questions the excluding character of the subject of liberty and equality and put on the stand the racial reality that occidental constitutionalism ignored.
The repercussions of the Haitian revolution on the beginnings of American and French constitutionalism are analyzed.

Fecha de envío / Submission Date: 12/03/2014
Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance Date: 5/05/2014

Author Biography

Nilda Garay Montañez, Universidad de Alicante

Profesora de Derecho Constitucional, Universidad de Alicante. Ha realizado estancias de investigación en la Universidad de Bologna, Universidad de Lima y American University en Washington D.C., Estados Unidos. Integrante de la Asociación Peruana de Derecho Constitucional. Profesora Invitada en el Doctorado en Derecho en la PUCP, Perú. Investigación en derecho antidiscriminatorio y derecho constitucional y género.

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Published

2014-07-28

Issue

No. 15 (2014): Historia Constitucional N. 15 (2014)

Section

Haití, Colombia y Argentina

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