Constitucion de las Provincias Unidas en Sud-America
By: sancionada y mandata publicar por le Soberano Congreso General Constituyente en 22 de abril de 1819
Contributors: Medrano, Pedro; Funes, Gregorio, 1749-1829; Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata. Congreso (1817)
Publisher: Imprenta de la Independencia
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Buenos-Ayres
Language: spa
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Constitutional law
Work titles: Constitucíon (1819)
Notes: Constitution of 22 April 1819, establishing a congress, with two legislative chambers (Cámara de Representantes, Senado) and an elected chief executive (Director del Estado)

Title vignette: Radiating sun, with human face within interior circle.

Thirty-nine unsigned leaves (verso of leaves [1] and [13] blank)

Blank verso of p. 19 not counted in numbering, resulting in even numbers on rectos (p. [20], 22-70) and odd numbers on versos (p. 21-71)

Includes reprints of two earlier works: 1) "Acta de independencia de las Provincias-Unidas en Sud-America." (p. [1]-IV; originally published Buenos Aires, 9 July 1816); 2) "Manifiesto que hace à las naciones el Congreso General Constituyente de las Provincias Unidas en Sud Amèrica [sic], sobre ..." (p. [1]-19; originally published Buenos Aires, 25 Oct. 1817, and edited by Pedro Medrano.

Also included, in addition to the constitution proper (p. [20]-39 and "Apendice a la Constitucion." (p. [40]-43), is another manifest, entitled: "Manifiesto del Soberano Congreso General Constituyente de la Provincias-Unidas en Sud América al dar la Constitucion." (p. [44]-71, edited by Gregorio Funes and dated 22 April 1819)

Sabin 16059.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 59765.

Zinny, A. Bib. histórica de las Provincias Unidas del Rio de la Plata, 1819 no. 17.