A Scholastic Liberalism? Tracing the Legacy of Spain’s 1812 Constitution in Latin America

• In Event: Spanish Scholasticism and Colonial Revolutions

Brief Overview

The intellectual legacy of Spain's 1812 Constitution was far reaching, lending a particular and partly scholastic character to liberal constitutionalism in Latin America, in contrast to the Anglo-Saxon constitutionalism found in North America.

Author

• Brendon Westler, St. Olaf College