Lecture by the Minister of Justice and Public Education

Abstract

I am well aware that I have not been invited to this ceremony to deliver a hymn to the Constitution. The honorable title of member of the most recent scientific corporation among the Argentine academies, my several lustrums of teaching constitutional law, your authority of masters in jurisprudence and your hierarchy of prestigious academics, so imposing for me, incline me to make some appreciations on the technical and moral valuation of our magna carta in the present. However, in a country so open to the penetration of ideas and even of the passions that divide European society, in a country whose youth so often welcomes with dangerous enthusiasm all kinds of generous utopias, it is convenient to mention at every opportunity the benefits received from the institutions themselves in order to tend to revere and strengthen them.