Glimpses of constitutionalism to both hemispheres: the University’s Chairs of Constitution during the Liberal Triennium in continental Spanish America (1820-1821)

Abstract

 With the comeback of the Spanish Constitutional system during the so called Liberal Triennium (1820-1823), its supporters recovered a series of initiatives oriented to reinforcement of this new regime that were already propelled during the last period of validity. In this paper we will revise one of them, the one that involved the implantation of Constitution’s Chairs in the different spaces of education around the Spanish Monarchy, focusing over the erected ones in the American institutions during this period. We will analyse, through the conserved inaugural discourses, the bases of the proposals, the lecturers selected to teach and another elements of the context where this episode of the history of the universities around the Hispanic world developed.

Enviado el (Submission Date): 01/05/2021

Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 6/05/2021