Power and law

Abstract

Power and law are two sides of the same coin, which validly exists, if it has been built in a legitimate and legal manner. Within this framework, this work aims to elucidate, firstly, what power is from its different perspectives and highlight a new structure that, breaking with the traditional cascade scheme (power-mandate-obedience), goes against the old paradigm, innovates relationships and materializes, inversely, the flow of underlying authority, always bearing in mind the elemental power-law relationship. Methodologically, the bibliographical review will briefly touch on the history of the municipality and converge on the Government-Public Administration duo, with special interest in territorially decentralized forms of government, such as the region, province or canton, in the case of Ecuador and State or municipality in the case of Venezuela, in whose management the presence of the universal principles of the Administration is assumed, as a social science. In other words, we will see the possibility of crystallizing the sovereign power of the people, within the scope of what has been modernly called New Latin American Constitutionalism.