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1 E. Gil-Bores, Historical Background of Constitutional Evolution in Hispanic America: Lecture Delivered in George Washington University 1 (1942)

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      HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF CONSTITTr lONAL EVOL-IfON IN HISPANIC








            Lecture Delivered in GeorgeashingtonUniversity


                                   By


                               E. GIL-BOGES






     The subject which we will discuss in this lecture includes a study

of the formation and the disintegration of the political structure of the

6olonial period in Hispanic America and the influence of that colonial

tradition during the first stages of constitutional organization between

1810 and 1811.

     The roots of our ideas and institutions are found in the past, and it

would be difficult to understand the political ideology of Hispanic America

without first arriving at an understanding of the political ideology of Spain;

we cannot understand the constitutional institutions of Hispanic America without

first understanding the political organization of Spain and the colonial empire.

U!e ,ill find in the life of the two Spains, Peninsular and Cis-Atlantic, the

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