Abstract

ARPINI, Adriana María. Two Constitutional Proposals in the 19th Century's Caribbean. Estud. filos. práct. hist. ideas [online]. 2009, vol.11, n.2, pp.11-20. ISSN 1851-9490.

In the complex sociopolitical scenario of the 19th Century's Caribbean several historical experiences of fights for independence and freedom took place. We focus our attention on two episodes, each one conveying a proposal for national organization: one in the early 19th Century -the 1801Constitution for Saint Domingue, still e French colony, written according to Toussaint Louverture's regulation-; and the other around the mid century -expressed in Eugenio María Hostos's "El programa de los independientes" from 1876, which conveys the basis for a future national organization of Puerto Rico. Our approach is determined by the question about the ways of subjectivity reinforcement in the texts and the practices rising from them.

Keywords : Freedom equality; Independence; Unity in diversity.

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