Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
[1828]. Constitucion politica de la Republica de Chile. [Santiago de Chile]: R. Rengifo. Large woodcut vignette on title page. 35 pp. Likely the first edition of the 1828 constitution. The finest achievement of the regime of Francisco Antonio Pinto, the constitution provides for popular elections at the national level and a system of checks and balances. (PD, # 41)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1812-1861