Miguel Ramos Arizpe is known in Mexican historiography as the "Father of Federalism", for his authorship of the Constitutive Act of the Mexican Federation and the Federal Constitution of the United States of Mexico in 1824. Miguel was an inhabitant of the frontier of the Spanish Empire. He was a congressman for the state of Coahuila in the Cadiz Cortes in 1811 and 1812, where he showcased beauty and riches of Nuevo Leon, Nuevo Santander, Coahuila and Texas. His genealogy can be traced back to first Basque colonizers of the Mexican North East. Miguel was an illustrated man, with liberal ideas for being a priest; he was also a philosopher and lawyer. He deeply desired to help his community prosper economically and politically, and was not afraid to propose more liberties to the Spanish Congress, even though it almost costed him his life.
Miguel was not always so liberal, in fact, his political and religious affiliations set him more as an Ancien Regime character. In 1808 he wrote an essay named: "Demonstrations of fidelity and love towards our augustus and beloved sovereign Don Fernando VII from Borbon." Ramos Arizpe was not wise, nor he pretended to be, he was affectionate to literature and literate science was not his strength; his intellectual genius was on knowing humanity and society.With the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, political modernity arrived to the Iberian peninsula and then to the colonies. Miguel was a leader of political modernity in Mexico, he represented the desires for justice and political-economic liberties, that inhabitants of the Mexican Northeast needed for prosperity and survival.
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Diego D.