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Courts and the Creation of a Spirit of Moderation: Judicial Protection of Revolutionaries in Argentina, 1863-1929 Jonathan M Hastings International and Comparative Law Review Volume 20 Article 6 Number 2 Winter 1997 1-1-1997 Courts and the Creation of a Spirit of Moderation: Judicial Protection of Revolutionaries in Argentina, 1863-1929 Jonathan M. Miller Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/ hastings_international_comparative_law_review Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, and the International Law Commons Recommended Citation Jonathan M. Miller, Courts and the Creation of a Spirit of Moderation: Judicial Protection of Revolutionaries in Argentina, 1863-1929, 20 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 231 (1997). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_international_comparative_law_review/vol20/iss2/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings International and Comparative Law Review by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Courts and the Creation of a "Spirit of Moderation": Judicial Protection of Revolutionaries in Argentina, 1863-1929 By JONATHAN M. MILLER-*: I. Introduction ............................................ 232 II. The Origins of the Argentine Supreme Court .......... 238 III. The Issues: Habeas Corpus, Fair Trials, and De Facto D octrine ................................................ 244 IV. The Rebellions of 1866-1867 ............................ 249 V. The Established Doctrine of the 1870s and 188s ....... 259 VI. The Supreme Court and the Turbulent 1890s ........... 262 A. HistoricalBackground .............................. 263 B. 1890-1891: Active, But on the Sidelines .............. 267 C. 1892: Judge Tedin ................................... 271 D. 1893: The Supreme Court Enters the Fray ........... 281 1. Cullen ci Llerena ............................... 283 2. The Judiciary and the September Revolts-Alem (Round 2) ...................................... 299 VII. The Fruits of Revolution ................................ 315 VIII. Two Different Views of Legitimacy ..................... 324 IX. Final Observations ...................................... 328 * Associate Professor of Law, Southwestern University School of Law. This Article is taken from portions of a larger work that was successfully defended as a J.S.D. disserta- tion at Columbia University School of Law. The author would like to thank the membe.rs of his dissertation committee, Professors Martha Fineman, Alejandro Garro, and R. Kent Greenawalt for their invaluable comments; the many Argentine colleagues who have re- viewed portions of this piece, particularly Professors Julio C. Cueto-Riia and Hernin Gullco; and colleagues at Southwestern University School of Law who offered comments during faculty workshops and individually. The author would also like to thank Jerome Feldman and Fang-Lian Liao for their research assistance and the Buenos Aires law firms of Bianchi, Mijura & Galarce, Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal and Estevez Cambra & Asociados for use of their offices and libraries. The librarians of the Southwestern Univer- sity School of Law Library, the Library of the Argentine Supreme Court, and the Argen- tine National Academy of History, provided invaluable assistance with what must often have seemed outlandish requests. Finally, the author's wife, Carina Judith Miller, provided constant, detailed editorial advice. Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. [Vol. 20:231 L Introduction Academic literature on Latin American politics almost com- pletely ignores the political role of the judiciary, and never offers a detailed analysis of the political influence of the judiciary in individual Latin American countries. Moreover, the little work that has been done generally focuses on Latin America as a whole, and carries the implicit assumption not only that the political role of the judiciary is limited today, but that it has always been limited.1 This assumption may well be true for many Latin American countries, buat some Latin American countries had important periods of political competition among members of the oligarchy before they entered twentieth cen- tury cycles of alternating military governments and populist politics.2 Given that these countries developed sophisticated institutional struc- tures based on the U.S. Constitution, it seems odd that scholars write- off the judiciary so quickly. This Article focuses on Argentina, and in Argentina at least, the courts had a very important influence on polit- ical developments. Any analysis of Argentine politics that ignores the courts is sim- ply incomplete. For seven decades, the 1860's through the 1920's, the Argentine Supreme Court acted as a stabilizing political influence and a soother of political passions in a way that even the U.S. Supreme Court probably did not. Certainly The Federalist theorized that the U.S. federal courts, and particularly the Supreme Court, would play 1. Keith S. Rosenn, The Protectionof Judicial Independence in Latin America, 19 U. MIAMI INTER-AM. L. REv. 1, 2-3, 32 (1987) (noting lack of judicial independence as a chronic problem throughout Latin America) [hereinafter Rosenn, Protection of Judicial Independence]; Keith S. Rosenn, Judicial Review in Latin America, 35 CHuO ST. L.J. 785, 819 (1974) (noting that while a few courageous judges have occasionally made a contribu- tion in the case of governments of doubtful legitimacy, judicial review generally has been fragile given a lack of societal commitment to the constitutions being defended) [hereinaf- ter Rosenn, JudicialReview]; Tom J. Farer, Reinforcing Democracy in Latin America: Notes Toward an Appropriate Legal Framework, 11 HuM. RTS. Q. 434, 445 (1989) (noting the general weakness of Latin American courts in engaging in judicial review); Howard J. Wiarda & Harvey F. Kline, The Latin American Tradition and Process of Development, in LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT 3, 42, 44 (Howard J. Wiarda & Harvey F. Kline eds., 4th ed. 1996) (noting the judges lack the respect enjoyed by their U.S. counter- parts, and face serious practical limitations in challenging the government)- Carlos S. Nino, On the Exercise of JudicialReview in Argentina, in TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA: THE ROLE OF THE JUDICIARY 309, 321-22, 325, 332-33 (Irwin P. Stotzky cd., 1993) (describing the Argentine judiciary as a failure in protecting both democracy and individual liberty). 2. Larry Diamond & Juan J. Linz, Introduction:Politics, Society, aad Democracy in Latin America, in DEMOCRACY INDEVELOPING CouNTRms: LATIN AMERICA 1, 7-9 (Larry Diamond et al. eds., 1989). 1997] Courts and the Creation of a "Spirit of Moderation" an important role in maintaining social peace. James Madison argued that judicial review by the Supreme Court was "clearly essential to3 prevent an appeal to the sword and a dissolution of the compact," while Alexander Hamilton noted the "benefits of the integrity and moderation of the judiciary" in the States and that the absence of a strong judiciary would "sap the foundations of public and private con- fidence" and "introduce in its stead universal distrust and distress."4 Alexis de Tocqueville validated their position in the 1830's, describing the U.S. Supreme Court as playing a vital role in maintaining "the peace, the prosperity and the very existence of the Union."' But there have also been plenty of doubters. Judge Learned Hand, for example, questioned the utility of judicial review, noting that "a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save."6 Certainly historic mistakes like Dred Scott7 and the confir- mation of the imprisonment of Eugene Debss show the Supreme Court as anything but a moderating force. Argentina in the late nineteenth century offers many instances where the Argentine Supreme Court unequivocally acted as a moder- ating political influence. While there were serious political crises, it is possible to identify a long period of Argentine history during which the courts, and particularly the Supreme Court, played an important role in moderating government repression of political opponents, and 3. THE FEDERA LsT No. 39 (James Madison). 4. Tr FEDERALIST No. 78 (Alexander Hamilton). See also CAP.RLEs L BLAcy: Jr,, Tim PEOPLE AND THE CoURT- JUDICIAL REVIEW IN A DE.,OCRACy 158 (1960). 5. 1 ALEMS DE TOcQUEVILLE, DEMOCRACY iN AummcA 156 (Henry Reeve trans., Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1945) (1835,1840). His observations on the federal courts echo The Federalistpapers: The executive appeals to them for assistance against the encroachments of the legislative power; the legislature demands their protection against the assaults of the executive; they defend the Union from the disobedience of the states, the states from the exaggerated claims of the Union, the public interest against pri- vate interests, and the conservative spirit of stability against the fickleness of the democracy. ad at 156-57. 6. Learned Hand, The Contribution of an Independent Judiciary to Cvilization, in THE SPmrr OF LIBERTY 172, 181 (Irving Dilliard ed., 1952). Henry Hart replied to this statement that the judiciary contributes to the forces of moderation. Henry M. Hart, Com- ment-Henry M. Hart, Jr., in GoNFMIMENT UNDER LAW 139, 140-41 (Arthur E. Suther- land ed., 1956), discussed in Rosenn, JudicialReview, supra note 1, at 813. 7. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857). 8. Debs v. United States, 249 U.S. 211 (1919) (confirming Eugene Debs's conviction
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