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| | Modern History Sourcebook: Simón de Bolívar: Message to the Congress of Angostura, 1819 |
 | | Modern History Sourcebook: Simón de Bolívar: Message to the Congress of Angostura, 1819 |
 | | Precisely because no form of government is so weak as the democratic, its framework must be firmer, and its institutions must be studied to determine their degree of stability...unless this is done, we will have to reckon with an ungovernable, tumultuous, and anarchic society, not with a social order where happiness, peace, and justice prevail. |
 | | From: Simón Bolívar, An Address of Bolivar at the Congress of Angostura (February 15, 1819), Reprint Ed., (Washington, D.C.: Press of B. Adams, 1919), passim. |
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