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Juan Bautista Alberdi and his Influence on Immigration Policy in the Argentine Constitution of 1853

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Sam Schulman
Sam Schulman*
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School of Inter-American Affairs University of New Mexico
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Juan Bautista Alberdi is a name not often heard in the United States, even among students of Hispanic-American affairs. Many of his Argentine compatriots and contemporaries are well known to us; we repeat their names as easily as we do those of our own national heroes: Sarmiento, Mitre, Echeverría. Yet the position of Alberdi in the historical development of the Argentine Republic is one of high honor and extreme importance. He is called “The Father of the Argentine Constitution,” and, indeed, such he was. Yet, even more important than this, Alberdi’s arguments in favor of a vast, all-encompassing program of immigration, was the impetus that stimulated his native country and made Argentina the most forward-moving and politically successful nation in Latin America.

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Research Article
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The Americas , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , July 1948 , pp. 3 - 17
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1948

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