8� (18 cm.), disbound. Title-page backed and remargined, with most of original margins and last 3 letters of "constitucion" missing. Minor stains and scribbles on title-page. Ink stain on following leaf nearly obscures 5-6 words; another on p. 17 does not affect legibility. Some marginal annotations. Overall a reading copy. Title page has rubber stamp ("Santiago") above an erasure. (1 l.), vi, 34 pp. *** FIRST EDITION??? of the 1828 constitution. Brise�o does not cite this edition, but lists 3 others, one folio, one quarto, and one folding. This liberal constitution, the finest achievement of the regime of Francisco Antonio Pinto (1827-29), provided for popular elections at the national level and a system of checks and balances; it also provided for a Constituent Convention to meet in 1836 to revise and amend the document.*** Cf. Brise�o I, 75. See Simon Collier, Ideas and Politics of Chilean Independence 1808-1833, pp. 293, 321-22 and 357. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Jisc. Not located in NUC.

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Title: Constitucion politica de la Republica de Chile.
Publisher: Imprenta de R. Rengifo
Edition: 1st Edition

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