El Palacio: Historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacán, Mexico

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Enviado por el Museo de Historia Natural de París, a la edad de 23 años, el joven naturalista francés Alcide d'Orbigny recorrió durante ocho años la América meridonal (Brasil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Perú y Bolivia) y a su regreso a Francia compuso una monumental obra publicada entre 1835 y 1847 con el título de Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale en nueve tomos y 11 volúmenes con más de 5 mil páginas y 500 ilustraciones. A pedido del presidente boliviano José Ballivián, en 1845 se editó un fragmento de la obra de d'Orbigny y no fue sino hasta un siglo después que ...

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«[...] En to dos los temas de opinion el pacto social, o el principio por el cual la sociedad se mantiene unida, requiere que la mayoria de las opiniones se convierta en regla para el conjunto y que la minoria rinda obediencia practica a la misma. Esto es perfectamente conforme con el principio de igualdad de derechos, porque, en primer lugar, todo hombre tiene derecho a dar una opinion, pero ningun hombre tiene derecho a que su opinion gobierne a los demas. [...]»