Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — Constitutional Government [ARTICLE]

Constitutional Government

1815. The first Diet of the Germanic Confederation held at Frankfort. 1816. The second Bank of the United States chartered by Congress, with capital $35,000,000. 1820. A Constitutional Junta established in Portugal; memlers elected. 1821. Peru declared independent and a National Congress elected. 182 L The Missouri compromise adopted by Congress and Missouri admitted the same year. 1821. The Central American States of Guatemala, San Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica separated from Spain and established representative forms of constitutional government. In 1823 they separated from the Mexican confederation and adopted their own constitutions, providing for representative bodies.