The Liberals of the decade of the 1810s and the American question. Ideological factors and parliamentary debate
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The parliamentary debate on the American question in the Cortes of Cádiz reveals a dual reality. On the one hand, the demands of some of the American deputies frequently oscillated between proclamations of loyalty to the mother country and veiled threats to sever the ties binding it to the American territories. On the other hand, the peninsular liberals failed to respond effectively to those demands, based on the mistaken belief that the abolition of absolutism and the adoption of the 1812 Constitution would, on their own, resolve the American problem, without realising that the demands of the overseas territories went far beyond the granting of individual freedoms and were aimed at self-government and independence.
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