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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Marcel Wah
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: May 04, 2015
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• Category : General News
• Description : Written by Juan Paz y Miño Cepeda on 17 April 2015.
• Location : Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
• Website : http://www.sentinel.ht/history/articles/academia/5986-haiti-s-constitution-is-first-and-root-of-latin-american-constitutions

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• QUITO, Ecuador (sentinel.ht) - Ecuadorian Historians Juan Paz and Miño Cepeda recognized the Constitution of Haitian revolutionary, Toussaint Louverture, as the first constitution of Latin America and the Caribbean, and in an essay published Wednesday following the Colloquium of History, Independence, Constitution and Citizenship held in Cadiz, Spain, the two noted the "exceptional" and "pioneering" nature of the May 9, 1801, Constitution and then proceeded to trace the evolution of other Latin American constitutions and their roots in Haiti.
  
  From Presna Latina, April 15: The Colloquium of History, Independence, Constitution and Citizenship, recently concluded in Cadiz, Spain, was an opportunity to examine Latin American constitutional roots.
  
  Also the impact of the Cadiz Constitution of March 19, 1912 (La Pepa), issued on March 19, 1812 by the famous Cortes, attended by many members of Latin America of the time.
  
  Among these José Mejía Lequerica, who is worshiped with dedicated Cádiz plates, effigies, medals and museums.
  
  The first Constitutions in Latin America were in training and were of Haiti from May 9, 1801, then Venezuela on December 21, 1811 and Quito, February 15, 1812 followed by Mexico (Apatzingán) of 22 October 1814.
  
  The first, issued by the revolutionary leader, Toussaint Louverture, of African descent, and it was an exceptional document because the island was still a French colony, and it even acknowledged that dependency; but created, however, a republic with separation of powers and proclaimed the rights of man and citizen.
  
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