Moscote, José Dolores (1879–1958)
Moscote, José Dolores (1879–1958)
José Dolores Moscote (b. 1879; d. 1958), Panamanian legal scholar. Moscote gained notoriety in the 1920s for his influential writings on the nature of the state. He opposed the classical tenets of nineteenth-century liberalism and favored a state more active in the life of the country. He participated in the drafting of the highly regarded 1946 constitution. Moscote was rector of the National Institute and vice rector of the National University. His most important works are Introducción al estudio de la constitución (1929), Orientaciones hacia la reforma constitucional (1934), and Estudios constitucionales (1938).
See alsoPanama, Constitutions .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Carlos Bolívar Pedreschi, El pensamiento constitucional del Dr. Moscote (1959).
Jorge Conte Porras, Diccionario biográfico ilustrado de Panamá, 2d ed. (1986).
Additional Bibliography
Szok, Peter A. La última gaviota: Liberalism and Nostalgia in Early Twentieth-century Panama. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Juan Manuel PÉrez