TY  - JOUR
T1  - Counter-Reformation diplomacy behind: Francisco Suárez's constitutionalist theory
A1  - Decock, Wim
PB  - Universidad de Manizales (UManizales): Centro de Investigaciones Socio-Jurídicas de la Facultad de Derecho
YR  - 2009
UL  - http://biblioteca.ararteko.eus/Record/dialnet-ar-18-ART0000364814
AB  - « Texts serve contexts », runs a common rule of legal practice. Taking into
account this basic yet revealing insight, it will be argued in this paper that
constitutionalist doctrine as it was developed by Francisco Suárez in early modern times basically is to be considered as the outcome of the power struggle
between the Church, its protestant rivals and increasingly ambitious secular
authorities. By stressing its natural and contractual origins, Suárez’s « natural » account of political power was geared towards bringing down to earth
the lofty ambitions of absolutist princes who increasingly tried to fish into the
Church’s ponds. From a methodological point of view, in a « humanistic » vain
this paper foremostly seeks to foster a return to a close-reading of Suárez’s
De legibus ac Deo legislatore (1612) and De defensione fidei catholicae (1613).
KW  - Contitutionalist doctrine
KW  - Francisco Suárez
KW  - power struggle
KW  - Church
KW  - princes
KW  - political power
KW  - Doctrina constitucionalista
KW  - lucha de poder
KW  - Iglesia
KW  - príncipes
KW  - poder político
ER  -