Lautoro Lodge of Argentina Quotes
Thou shalt never recognize as the legitimate government of the country any other than that which is elected by the free and spontaneous will of the peoples, and the republican system being the most adaptable to the government of the Americas, thou shalt try by all means within thy power to have the peoples adopt it.
The Lautoro Lodge had as members most of the Anti Spanish revolutionaries of the Country. Some governments have feared Masonic Lodges and in some cases they have been “hotbeds” of revolution; in other cases, they have been the institution most supportive of the conservative aristocratic forces of the society.
Lautoro Lodge of Argentina, Argentine Masonic Lodge, Credo of the Lautaro Lodge, 1816
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The Spanish colonization had been so exploitative that there was little of no infrastructure established in the Spanish colonies. Almost no institutions, no local government, existed, and there was no system of law or tolerance of minority views. Power controlled all and the Spanish (and Portuguese) were the power. When they were defeated, it was a bitter free for all in most cases unless there was a strong man and even they did not last long.
This quotation had a close proximity to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (see linked quote). Although this was probably Lincoln's most famous line, it was not totally original. John Adams came close in a 1774 proclamation (see linked quote). As did John Marshall in his McCulloch v. Maryland decision (see linked quote). There was also Thomas Cooper in 1795 (see linked quote). But the earliest close phrase use appears to be the English cleric, John Wycliffe, in 1382 (see linked quote). It is not known with which of these Lincoln was familiar.
Arias abolished the army in Costa Rica.
As a member of the electoral college, he refused to vote for Richard M. Nixon who had won the North Carolina vote. Extremist fundamentalists often oppose democracy in favor of republicanism. A major distinction for them is in the republic, there is not direct
