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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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Did Miguel Iglesias sign the 1821 Act of Independence?
No, he was not present at the July 28 proclamation. As a young jurist, he joined the Provisional Government weeks later and authored the formal legal justification for independence, published in September 1821 as 'Fundamentos Jurídicos de la Soberanía Nacional.' His draft grounded legitimacy in popular consent rather than monarchical abdication.
Was Miguel Iglesias related to President Miguel Iglesias (1830, 1909)?
No. The 19th-century independence jurist (1785, 1836) is often confused with the later president who signed the Treaty of Ancón in 1883. They share a surname and nationality but belong to distinct generations, political projects, and ideological lineages, separated by over forty years and two civil wars.
What was Iglesias’s position on slavery during the independence debates?
He co-authored the 1822 decree abolishing the slave trade in Peru and advocated gradual emancipation tied to education and land access. Unlike Bolivarian abolitionists, he opposed immediate manumission without economic transition, fearing destabilization, but his 1825 memo to Congress explicitly called enslaved people 'subjects of natural right,' not property.
Where are Miguel Iglesias’s original manuscripts held today?
His handwritten drafts of the 1821 legal foundations and 1823 constitutional notes reside in the Archivo General de la Nación in Lima, bound in calf leather with marginalia in iron-gall ink. A 2021 digitization project made 47 pages publicly accessible, including his rejected proposal for bilingual (Spanish-Quechua) civic oaths.
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