Federalism is the current style of government of the United States of Mexico, and Miguel Ramos Arizpe is a capital figure of the political movement. He planned the origins of a new national administration after the fall of the Mexican Empire. He was a true patriot and a lover of liberty, he dedicated his life to serve his constituents and fellow countrymen. Ramos Arizpe was a diplomat, who won the hate of the king for denouncing the tyranny and inefficiency of the Empire's administration. He is remembered as a man of wise & just character. His laborosity at all ages, his affinity for justice and order, his generosity and philanthropy, especially towards poor Americans and Spaniards. His sacrifice to make Mexico an independent and sovereign nation, has provoked people to call him a patriarch of Mexican independence and liberty.
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Plan of a Federal Constitution for Mexico by Stephen F. Austin, made about June 10, 1823, in Monterrey, Mexico, with notes in the margin by Miguel Ramos Arizpe.
In 1823, the Republic of Mexico was just being created. Agustin Iturbide, emperor of the first Mexican Empire was dethroned and a provisional…
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Miguel Ramos Arizpe
Miguel Ramos Arizpe is known in Mexican historiography as the "Father of Federalism", for his authorship of the Constitutive Act of the Mexican…
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Biografia Del Ilustre Coahuilense Don Miguel Ramos Arizpe
Miguel Ramos Arizpe’s family was among the first colonizers to settle in Saltillo in the year 1577. The regions of Texas, Tamaulipas. Durango and…
Niles' Weekly Register. Baltimore, Saturday, August 17, 1816. -- Description of the Province of Coahuila, the New Kingdom of Leon, New Santander, and Texas.
The 28th of December of 1810, most of the Mexican congressmen embarked the English vessel "El Implacable" towards Spain, with the purpose of claiming…
Plan of a Federal Constitution for Mexico by Stephen F. Austin, made about June 10, 1823, in Monterrey, Mexico, with notes in the margin by Miguel Ramos Arizpe.
In 1823, the Republic of Mexico was just being created. Agustin Iturbide, emperor of the first Mexican Empire was dethroned and a provisional…