The Catholic Religion in the “neogranadian” constitutions of 1811 and 1815

Abstract

The article approaches the relative topic to the influence of the church in the constitutions of the New Granada, taking as reference the main facts and the ideology that, for the time of the XIX century, were given as much in Spain as in France, and that in some or another form, contributed to constitute the political bases of the Republic, bases on which the first constitutional texts were built. The author will begin describing the process of independence, their external influences and the revolutionary ideology. Then, he will refer to the religiosity of the Constitutions of New Granada, the manifestations of confessional character of the State, and the transplant of the ideas of the Catholic liberalism, together with the concept of national sovereignty. Finally, he explains how the previously exposed topics were captured in the normative body of the texts, and how the political ideas of freedom and religious tolerance were inter twined.