Constitutional Documents of Colombia and Panama 1793-1853

Between 1793 and 1853 Columbia underwent a transition from being the Spanish viceroyalty New Granada to the Gran Columbia of liberator president Simón Bolìvar, and on to become one of the most liberal republics in the contemporary world. The *Constitutional Documents of Colombia and Panama 1793-1853* presents the first declaration of human rights in Spanish from the year 1793, along with the first constitutional charter of Ibero-America (that of the Free State of Socorro from 1810), as well as the previously little-known early constitutions of the Antioquia Republic from 1811. The volume contains 32 national documents and 21 state document of Colombia and two documents of Panama.