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El Estado liberal-garantista

English translation: liberal constitutional state

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Spanish term or phrase:El Estado liberal-garantista
English translation:liberal constitutional state
Entered by: Lucy Williams

20:53 Feb 23, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Government / Politics / europe
Spanish term or phrase: El Estado liberal-garantista
**El Estado liberal-garantista** laissez faire, laissez passer, adscribe al Derecho la tutela y represión del orden (vigilar y castigar, nigtwatchman); el minimal state, es incompatible con el Estado social que frente a la neutralidad postula la imparcialidad, promueve la discriminación positiva (acciones de discriminación inversa y/o afirmación positiva, el uso y también, el abuso alternativo del Derecho), asume el Derecho premial y las sanciones positivas (Bobbio) y confiere al Derecho la función activa y positiva de promover la igualdad real y efectiva.

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Lucy Williams
Spain
Local time: 09:07
liberal constitutional state
Explanation:
"Garantias" means constitutional rights and is usually used for the basic civil rights, embodied in constitutions, that are sacred to liberalism, as opposed to the so-called "social rights" that are associated with welfare or social states.
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Dr Trevor Stack
United Kingdom
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4 +2liberal constitutional state
Dr Trevor Stack
4The liberal protective state
Edward Tully
4the liberal state with strong guarantees of rights within the criminal justice system
Jenni Lukac (X)
4State with Constitutionally-enshrined rights
Yvonne Gallagher


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liberal constitutional state


Explanation:
"Garantias" means constitutional rights and is usually used for the basic civil rights, embodied in constitutions, that are sacred to liberalism, as opposed to the so-called "social rights" that are associated with welfare or social states.

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  • p. 3: On the political plane the rule of law signified a landmark transformation

    Reference: http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ldd/article/viewFile/52890/41...
Dr Trevor Stack
United Kingdom
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agree  David Ronder
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agree  James A. Walsh
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The liberal protective state


Explanation:
Can One Be a Classical Liberal and Really Believe This ... - [ Traducir esta página ]14 Jun 2007 ... I think an Austrian anarcho-capitalist can admit that a classical liberal protective state is useful (yield positive return by providing ...
www.coordinationproblem.org/2007/.../can_one_be_a_cl.html - En cachéAmazon.co.uk: Sean Gainford "Big G"'s review of Dune - [ Traducir esta página ]There is no welfare, shielding liberal protective state here. That breeds weakness. There is no place for weakness in Dune, as the Old Reverend mother ...
www.amazon.co.uk/review/R24HPTAIGUM681 - En caché

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As for Phil's note, the terms are not identical - a liberal protective state is a million miles away from a laissez faire state...

Edward Tully
Local time: 09:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 292

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  David Ronder: The protection in 'garantista' is to do with legal rights, not welfare / But your answer and refs. and comment @ Phil suggest welfare.
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  -> you have misunderstood the term - a "liberal protective state" is precisely about defending the legal rights of the people.//I think you're confusing an interventionist state with a welfare state.
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the liberal state with strong guarantees of rights within the criminal justice system


Explanation:
I know that's a mouthful, but when "garantista" is employed it refers to rights of the accused and other rights within the justice system. process guarantees, and exposing and demanding action to correct ... order to protect individual rights and engage in strong forms of ..... law; that is, we confine the discussion to cases in the criminal justice system, ..... de garantía are excessively garantista and, hence, excessively lenient, letting dangerous ...
www.juecesypoliticaenamericalatina.cide.edu/papers/hilbink.... as the liberal legal order in Guatemala became highly centralized and ... garantista model; one in which guarantees for the fundamental human ... framework for criminal justice based on ensuring human rights guarantees for ..... similar measures cannot be separated from the question of how to build a strong and ...
www.usal.es/~dpublico/areacp/Doctorado0304/Seminario.../Sie... JUSTICE REFORM IN MEXICO: CHANGE & CHALLENGES IN THE JUDICIAL SECTOR*
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de DA Shirk - Artículos relacionados
The Mexican criminal justice system has clearly faced critical challenges over ...... own recognizance in Mexico is very small, given the strong emphasis on establishing probable .... 2) The Rights of the Accused: Guarantees for the Presumption of ... 51“Garantismo” is a loaded term in Mexico. One the one hand, ...
www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/Shirk.pdf

Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 09:07
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 120
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State with Constitutionally-enshrined rights


Explanation:
basically that human rights and freedoms are guaranteed by the State Constitution i.e "enshrined"

Since 1988, thirty-one states have enshrined victims' rights in their own ... But today the coin of the criminal justice realm is constitutional rights. ...
www.fed-soc.org/publications/pubid.1424/pub_detail.asp - Cached


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entitled to the human rights enshrined in the said treaties, ... Those states which have ratified the international human rights treaties mentioned earlier, ..... accordingly, he could not claim a breach of his constitutional rights ...
www.caribbeancourtofjustice.org/.../Respect_for_Human_Right... - Similar

Since the fundamental rights can only be altered by a constitutional amendment, ..... have been enshrined in the Directive Principles of state policy. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Rights_in_India - Cached - Similar

This is a logical continuation of the constitutionally enshrined unity and indivisibility of the Bulgarian nation and state. Article 11, paragraph 4 of the ...
www.cecl.gr/RigasNetwork/.../r9/BU_9_Konstantinov.html - Cached - Similar


Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 08:07
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 18
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