Process of formation of the Venezuelan State

Abstract

From the first moments of the conquest and colonization of these territories that would later make up Venezuela, as in the rest of the continent, the institutions that, with little and slow evolution, would end up becoming those that the colonial empire bequeathed to the new republics and to the new states after the independence struggle of the first thirty years of the 19th century. The last three decades of the 18th century and the first three of the 19th century summarize the creation and ordering of the institutions that ended up shaping the Venezuelan National State from 1830. Supported by the concepts that Federico Engels and Max Weber give us about the State, we analyze and order the historical evidence to affirm that it is with the real separation of Gran Colombia and the organization of national public powers in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the State of Venezuela of 1830, which gave rise to the Venezuelan National State. The purpose of this work is to describe the process of formation of the Venezuelan state and is developed with the historical, logical, analysis and hermeneutic synthesis method, using secondary documentary sources, consulted in constitutions, scientific publications, doctoral theses, and contemporary texts that incorporated other prospects.