Simón Bolívar
1783 – 1830 · Venezuela · Politics
Led six nations to independence and drafted their founding constitutions.
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- Montesquieu
1689 – 1755 · Politics, Law
Bolívar's Angostura Address builds Spanish American constitutions on Montesquieu's frame.
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