Naturaleza Jurídica del Estado Federal descentralizado como organización político-territorial en Venezuela

Abstract

The main objective of this investigation was to analyze the legal nature of the Decentralized Federal State as a political-territorial organization in Venezuela. The federal State is formed under the principles of federalism, that is, of political decentralization. Its territory is divided into autonomous units that, on certain matters, are governed by their own Constitution, laws and authorities, while others are subject to the central legal order of the State and the government of the federation. It corresponds to the federal Constitution to distribute the competences between the central and decentralized bodies. The methodology was based on a non-experimental design, in the documentary research modality. The techniques of documentary observation, analytical summary and critical examination, bibliographies of national and foreign authors were used; the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (1999) and the Organic Law of People's Power (2010). The techniques of data collection will be the bibliographic archival and the documentary observation, whose instrument will be the documentary record.