El Estatuto de Bayona. La primera carta liberal de América Latina*

Abstract

By advancing research projects on the origin of constitutional law in Latin America, we find documentary information that lets us know their philosophical orientations ; This time, the analysis focused on the Statute of Bayonne, the first formal constitution of Spain, but unknown by the Spanish people consider rightly as a charter granted, not born of the sovereign will .

However, for Neogranadinos, if he could have a special meaning, from a philosophical point of view; in this work we address the issue which was really to identify the impact of the Statute of Bayonne in the American colonies and if it really was as Francisco Antonio Zea said, “The first letter of liberal America.”