In his weekly column in the Hoy newspaper on February 13, the constitutionalist Eduardo Jorge Prats, one of the editors of the constitutional reform project that is currently known in the National Congress, highlighted the efforts of our Director General, Lic. Fabio J Guzmán Ariza, in these terms:
“Fabio Guzmán has started a crusade in favor of the proper use of the Spanish language in legal texts. As part of this initiative, whose flagships are his delicious column “Our language” in the magazine “Gaceta Judicial” and the recently inaugurated Fundación Guzmán Ariza Pro Academia Dominicana de la Lengua, the lawyer has joined forces with the director of the Dominican Academy de la Lengua, Dr. Bruno Rosario Candelier, and together they have reviewed the text of the Constitutional Reform Bill presented by the Executive Power to the National Congress, as a result of which they have presented their linguistic recommendations and observations directly to the National Congress.
We understand that these observations perfect the proposed constitutional texts, thereby contributing to the precision, clarity, simplicity and disclosure of what will eventually become the new Constitution. It is our firm conviction that the members of the Review Assembly, when discussing each of the articles of the constitutional proposal, will take these observations into account, mainly because they do not alter the content of the proposal in any way and, above all, because, as stated by Bentham, quoted by Guzmán, the legislator must scrupulously watch the choice of words. “
