The Republic in Colombia from the Platon, Jean Bodino and Emmanuel Kant’s ideal

Abstract

The National Constituent Assembly in Colombia was born out of a citizens' initiative in 1989 inspired by students who sought to significantly reform the Political Constitution that governed Colombia at that time; they demanded a structural change in recognition and protection of rights that, in turn, demanded the consolidation of the social state of law, a participatory citizenship and an ideal form of government: the Republic, based on what arguments? The research questioned the closeness between the republican discourse assumed by the constituent and the approach of the same notion on the part of three illustrious thinkers, –Platón, Jean Bodino y Emmanuel Kant–, in order to finally contrast and elucidate similarities or
distancing gaps between them.