Abstract

RINCON DE MALDONADO, Miriam  and  FERNANDEZ G, María Alejandra. Venezuelan Democracy Seen from the Triangular Relationship: Force, Power and Right. Frónesis [online]. 2006, vol.13, n.2, pp.68-108. ISSN 1315-6268.

The modern State uses the triangular relationship of force, power and right as its support. It is understood that a healthy balance of these three elements produces democratic stability by virtue of the legitimating source of the State to apply its laws, and its coercive power over the citizens. In the power transformation process in law and of law as a backup for force, a juridical logic intervenes that specifically obeys Constitutional process mechanisms for creating laws. In the consolidation period of Venezuelan democracy, starting on January 23, 1958, and in the radical change process of 1999, the aforementioned elements intervened; therefore, the following work paper intends to describe them and the role they played in the development of Venezuelan democracy during its consolidation, maintenance and change.

Keywords : Power; force; law; triangular relationship; democracy; Venezuela.