Discurso de Angostura (1819)
- Language:
- Spanish
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~17,700 words · 84 passages
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- APASimon Bolivar. (n.d.). Discurso de Angostura (1819). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/simon-bolivar/discurso-de-angostura-1819
- MLASimon Bolivar. Discurso de Angostura (1819). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/simon-bolivar/discurso-de-angostura-1819.
- ChicagoSimon Bolivar. Discurso de Angostura (1819). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/simon-bolivar/discurso-de-angostura-1819.
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What it is about
Address at Angostura (1819), in Spanish.
Context and history
Bolívar before the congress, proposing the constitution of Gran Colombia. He argues that copying United States institutions would be a mistake because the American peoples lack the experience, and defends a strong executive and a hereditary senate. It is the text where the liberator is least liberal and most clear-sighted about what he feared.
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ya jueces; todos participaban de todos los DISCURSO 75 poderes. , El Ejecutivo, compuesto de dos cónsules, padecía el mismo inconveniente que el de Esparta. A pesar de su deformidad no sufrió la república la desastrosa discordancia que toda previsión habría supuesto inseparable de una magistratura compuesta de dos individuos, igualmente autorizados, con las facultades de un monarca.…
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