Against fear, the Law: Constitution and War in the Nueva Granada of 1815

Authors

  • Andrés Botero Bernal Universidad de Medellín

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i16.440

Keywords:

Colombia, Antioquia Constitutionalism, Constitutionalism in the Nueva Granada, Independence from Spain

Abstract

This paper describes the social and political processes that surrounded the issue of the Antioquia’s Constitution in 1815. Based on such description, the paper presents an interpretation of the reasons why the constituents preferred a new Constitution instead of an act of reform of the 1812’s Constitution. In addition, this paper also outlines how the constitutional experience in the Nueva Granada ended in virtue of the Spanish reconquest, and criticizes the pejorative view of this period that was promoted a few years later.

Enviado el (Submission date): 12/04/2015
Aceptado el (Acceptance date): 22/05/2015

Author Biography

Andrés Botero Bernal, Universidad de Medellín

Abogado y filósofo, especialista en docencia universitaria y en contextualización psico–social del crimen, Master Europeo Universitario y Doctor en Derecho. Miembro del comité editorial o científico de varias revistas nacionales e internacionales y conferencista nacional e internacional. Actualmente se desempeña como profesor e investigador de la Escuela de Filosofía de la Universidad Industrial de Santander, universidad pública colombiana.

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Published

2015-09-09

Issue

No. 16 (2015): Historia Constitucional N. 16 (2015)

Section

Colombia and Argentina

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