The Instructions of the Year XIII ( es, Instrucciones del año XIII) were the mandate brought by the representatives from the

Oriental Province Banda Oriental, or more fully Banda Oriental del Uruguay (Eastern Bank), was the name of the South American territories east of the Uruguay River and north of Río de la Plata that comprise the modern nation of Uruguay; the modern state of Rio Gra ...

to the

Assembly of the Year XIII The Assembly of Year XIII ( es, Asamblea del Año XIII) was a meeting called by the Second Triumvirate governing the young republic of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (modern-day Argentina, Uruguay, part of Bolivia) on October 1812 ...

of the

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. In 1813, a meeting called by the

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was meant to define the type of government for the new nation. The people of the Oriental Province (what is now

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

) drafted a

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document, opposed to the

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of the Second Triumvirate. Among other ideas, the following principles were proclaimed: * independence, * republic, * federalism, * full civic and religious freedom, * the capital should not be Buenos Aires. These Instructions were the origin of an unending conflict between the Oriental leader,

José Gervasio Artigas José Gervasio Artigas Arnal (; June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850) was a political leader, military general, statesman and national hero of Uruguay and the broader Río de la Plata region. He fought in the Latin American wars of ind ...

, and the authorities that be in

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. Some scholars see the influence of American founding father

Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In th ...

in these Instructions.John Street, ''Artigas and the Emancipation of Uruguay'' (London: Cambridge University Press, 1959), 178-186.

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* 1813 in Uruguay 1813 in politics History of Uruguay José Gervasio Artigas {{Uruguay-hist-stub

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