UN General Assembly
1962

99. I Should like to recall that we, the peoples of Latin America, have learnt, and not in anima vili, that the establishments self-government involves, in the first place, intelligent adaptation of the forms of law to the sociological realities of each country. Speaking, for people which, like its brothers in America, has in the past had to involve itself in a continuous battle as between ideal constitutions and real constitutions, as between written constitutions and sociological constitutions battle fortunately terminated by Uruguay half a century ago — we are in a position fully to appreciate the need to adapt the principles underlying the development of free institutions to the political body which they are intended to govern, as skin is adapted to the human frame.