- 1. Buenos Aires.
- 2. Santa Fé.
- 3. Entre Rios.
- 4. Corrientes.
- 5. Córdoba.
- 6. San Luis.
- 7. Santiago del Estero.
- 8. Mendoza.
- 9. San Juan.
- 10. La Rioja.
- 11. Catamarca.
- 12. Tucumán.
- 13. Salta.
- 14. Jujuy.
TERRITORIES
- 1. Federal Capital.
- 2. Misiones.
- 3. Formosa.
- 4. Chaco.
- 5. Pampa Central.
- 6. Neuquen.
- 7. Rio Negro.
- 8. Chubut.
- 9. Santa Cruz.
- 10. Tierra del Fuego.
- 11. Los Andes.
It should be added that all Public Acts and Judicial Decisions of one Province have legal effect in all the others. Sometimes, however, conflicts of jurisdiction afford matter for the decision of the Federal High Court.
Uruguay is divided into 19 Departments, each of which has a Governor appointed by the National Executive and an administrative Council chosen by local popular vote. The Departments of Uruguay are:
- Tucuarembo.
- Cerro Largo.
- Durazno.
- Paysandú.
- Salto.
- Minas.
- Florida.
- Artígas.
- Rocha.
- Rivera.
- Treinta y tres.
- Soriano.
- Rio Negro.
- San José.
- Colonia.
- Flores.
- Maldonado.
- Canelones.
- Montevideo.
It is perhaps not convenient here to discuss the comparative advantages of the two systems; but it must be said that evidence of the defects inherent to the qualities of both is not lacking. In Argentina the Provinces and in Uruguay the National Governments have frequently shown and still show a disposition to make ells out of the inches given them by their respective constitutions.
In Argentina this disposition was considerably scotched though not killed by the Centralizing policy of Dr. Figueroa Alcorta, the immediate predecessor in the Presidential chair of the recently deceased Dr. Roque Saenz Peña. Dr. Alcorta’s policy was fundamentally good and was carried out by him with, doubtless, the best of motives, if the manner of its execution was rather Gilbertian.
The evils he attacked arose from the fact that each of the more distant Provinces was practically under the almost autocratic domination of a great land-owning family; the descendants, usually, of the lords of the soil in the patriarchal days of the River Plate countries.