Description

This volume, most likely published in Bogota in November 1821, contains the text of the constitution of the first Republic of Colombia, proclaimed by President Simón Bolívar in October of the same year. In 1717‒23, the Spanish imperial authorities combined territories comprising all or parts of present-day Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador into the Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada; Panama was added in 1751. In 1810, following Napoleon’s invasion of Spain in 1808 and the captivity of the Spanish king Ferdinand VII, different jurisdictions in New Granada ...