Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in South America, During the Years 1819-20-21, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing an Account of the Present State of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile State, where books were Opened to receive the assents and dissents of the whole population. It was generally well received and during my residence in the country was strictly followed. Had no change taken place in the government and system, I should have placed the project in the Appendix but, under existing circum stances, it will be sufficient to give the heads of it, and afterwards to show in what part it proved deficient and did not work well for any order of the State. The Director, in the De cree which promulgated the Proyecto, states, that in case the op1nion of the people should concur with his own, the persons destined to fill the high office of senators were already named. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.