Congress of Chilpancingo

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The Congress of Chilpancingo (Spanish: Congreso de Chilpancingo) was a meeting held in the Mexican state of Guerrero from September until November in 1813. The result of this meeting was that Mexico formally declared itself to be independent of Spain and the ratification of what was latter to become the first national constitution. The meeting was called for by José María Morelos, who assumed the leadership of the Mexican independence movement after the founder of the movement, Miguel Hidalgo, was executed.

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• Guedea, Virginia. The Process of Mexican Independence, The American Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 1. (Feb., 2000), pp. 116-130.
• Vazquez, Josefina Zoraida. The Mexican Declaration of Independence, The Journal of American History, Vol. 85, No. 4. (Mar., 1999), pp. 1362-1369.