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Juan Bautista Alberdi

1810–1884 · 19th century

Juan Bautista Alberdi was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat of the Generation of 1837. His Bases and Starting Points for the Political Organisation of the Argentine Republic (1852) shaped the federal constitution adopted in 1853, and his maxim that 'to govern is to populate' expressed the policy of encouraging European immigration.

Juan Bautista Alberdi
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Juan Bautista Alberdi. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/juan-bautista-alberdi
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