State and Constitution in Simón Bolívar

Abstract

The Liberator, without a doubt, owes his luck to his unparalleled role in American history. The importance of Simón Bolivar in American history is due not so much and not only to his military exploits that led him to achieve the independence of those that are today the Republics of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, but rather to having determined the political scheme of those countries that he had imagined as a single state reality and for which he had accomplished the gigantic and utopian effort of thinking of American institutions capable of forcing them to unity. The element that will mark his thought and action will be Americanism: the American delirium, the incessant aspiration to give his land and his people laws and institutions that were relevant to a reality that he never wanted to consider as the appendix of Europe and in particular of that Europe that, by defeating Napoleon, had not only collapsed the despotic French empire, but with the Congress of Vienna, attempted to restore those thrones and those institutions that had greatly conditioned the very development of the colonies, forcing Americans to live like blind among a thousand colors.