He called not only for liberation from Spain, but also for the end of slavery and the return of lands to the indigenous inhabitants. A highly educated creole , Hidalgo had read the works of Enlightenment writers and had been an important community organizer in Dolores.
He is depicted inside his study, minimally decorated with books, a desk, and a small reproduction of the Virgin of Guadalupe below. In this way, the Virgin of Guadalupe became a symbol of Mexican resistance and independence, and was featured on the earliest Mexican flag. Together, on February 24, , they proposed a blueprint for independence called the Plan de Iguala.
The plan offered three guarantees— preservation of the Catholic Church 's status, the independence of Mexico as a constitutional monarchy, and equality of Spaniards and criollos. Although viceregal authorities tried to resist, the plan met with widespread approval both in civilian and military quarters.
By the end of July , when Juan O'Donoju arrived to take over the reins of colonial government, the loyalists controlled only Mexico City and Veracruz. Leslie Bethell Cambridge University Press, Donald E. Michael C. Meyer and William L. The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style , 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
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In , the Red Scare still raged in the United States. Although Senator Joseph Live TV. Rather, he argues that "New Spain possessed one the most intense and diverse networks of educational and scientific institutions in the Western world", which meant that:.
Educated novohispanos, like their Spanish counterparts, were modern, enlightened individuals who were well prepared to address the complex problems of their age. They were well versed in contemporary political thought which emphasized liberty, equality, civil rights, the rule of law, representative constitutional government and laissez faire economics [p.
Rodriguez's insistence on the domestic origins of the Hispanic revolutions after is a reply to the pejorative historical narrative popular in the twentieth century which insisted that liberalism and constitutional government in Latin America were foreign imports doomed to failure because of the backward nature of its political culture: its predilection for strong autocratic leaders and for armed rebellions rather than elections and continued citizen engagement in public life.
Even so, Rodriguez's desire to laud Hispanic culture and its political revolution leads him to indulge in inexact hyperbole on a number of occasions. For example, when he discusses Hispanic print culture and newspapers, he asserts that "The Diario de Madrid, founded in , became the first daily newspaper in Europe" p. In fact, the first UK daily paper -The Daily Courant- circulated almost half a century earlier in However, all these things would be constitutionally provided for in Mexico, for example, before the end of the nineteenth-century.
It is true that the Charter was one of the most radical of its political context. As Rodriguez points out, it establishes one of the most generous definitions of citizenship in the Atlantic world, even if as he fails to mention its use of indirect elections proved to be a very effective filter, concentrating the real decision-making in the hands of a reduced elite.
Even so, it compares somewhat badly with the insurgent Constitution of , which despite adopting the same indirect electoral system gave citizenship to "all those born in America" regardless of their race art. Furthermore, his refusal to entertain the idea that Spanish and Mexican constitutionalism bore any relation to their European and North American neighbours' political systems flies in the face of much recent scholarship.
For my part, I have studied the importance of British constitutional thinking for Independent Mexico's politicians. Such studies do not indicate that Hispanic or Mexican nation-builders jettisoned their identities and inheritance in favour of foreign models.
Instead, they show that the various Constituent Congresses in Mexico and Spain acted just as their counterparts in the former British colonies or France did before them: they studied the available examples and options before negotiating their own settlement in response to their particular circumstances.
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