About This Book
In the framework of the political-legal transition from ancient society to modernity, the author Professor Juan Garrido Rovira, studies in this work the power structure that the Spanish monarchy had established in the Captaincy General of Venezuela and the major aspects of the political transformation of Venezuela, which began on April 19, 1810: the transition from dependency to Independence; the passage from despotism to freedom; the change in the form of government from monarchy to republic and the modification of the secular social order by passing from aristocracy to democracy or, more precisely, from the "legal" inequality of free men to the consecration of their equality and the progressive abolition of slavery. Under the protection of the new political and social imaginaries and the relations between law and politics, "What is radically new," as Francois-Xavier Guerra expressed in his studies on the Hispanic revolutions, "is the creation of a public scene when this new system of references leaves the private circles in which it had been confined until then, to burst into full light. A new legitimacy then triumphs – that of the nation or that of the sovereign people – a new politics with actors of a new class who, for the first time, can be called politicians, insofar as they are constituted precisely to conquer that new legitimacy", based on the principle of self-determination of peoples, the separation of legislative powers, executive and judicial, suffrage and representation and the Rights of Man.
