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Peruvian Independence Politician
About Miguel Iglesias
On July 28, 1821, I stood beside San Martín in Lima’s Plaza Mayor, not as a general or a diplomat, but as the jurist who drafted the foundational Act of Independence, weaving Enlightenment principles with Andean realities. My legal training in San Marcos shaped a rare stance: I insisted that sovereignty resided not in a provisional junta, but in the people, indigenous, mestizo, and criollo alike, though the 1823 Constitution I helped frame ultimately deferred full enfranchisement. I resigned from Congress in 1827 over the militarization of governance, refusing to legitimize Bolivarian centralism, and spent my final years revising civil code drafts in Arequipa, where I argued that land reform must precede representative institutions. My letters reveal a quiet tension: reverence for liberty, skepticism toward charismatic authority, and a lifelong effort to anchor law in local custom rather than imported models.
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