[507] =nunca se insistirá demasiado=, _one can never insist too much_. Notice that =insistirá= is future of probability or possibility. [508] =cuando no=, _if not_. [509] =puesto que=, _since_. [510] =plantea=. The subject is =democracia=. [511] =haciendo que los representantes lo sean en común de las grandes divisiones políticas=, lit., _bringing it about that the representatives be so in common from the great political divisions_; trans., _electing their representatives at large from the great political divisions_, _i.e._, the representatives represent a province and not a district. [512] =se pretendía hacerle desempeñar=, _they_ (=la gente culta de las ciudades=) _intended to have it_ (the people) _play_. [513] =exteriorizando los cuales=, _upon manifesting which_. [514] =Aunque figuras menores=. The verb =son= is understood. [515] =habiendo algunos=, _there being some_. [516] =o sea el voto secreto=, _that is, the secret ballot_. Mr. Hipólito Irigoyen, the present incumbent of the presidency, is the first Argentina president to have been elected by the secret or Australian ballot. [517] =esa ley=, _i.e._, of the Australian ballot. [518] =su= refers to =poder=. [519] =inhibiendo=, trans., _to prevent_. [520] =de cuya presión... los sirven=, _the results of whose pressure oftentimes are laws favorable to them, though ostensibly not meant to be such_. [521] =que en el acto de celebrarse el Congreso de Tucumán=, _than on the occasion when the Congress of Tucumán was held_. [522] =después de seis años de rotas las hostilidades=, _six years after the breaking out of hostilities_. [523] =llevaba involucrados=, _carried within itself_. [524] =de este último=, _i.e._, =el proceso idealista=. [525] =Uno de ellos=, _i.e._, one of the =caudillos=. V. Introduction. [526] =a su alrededor=, _around it_. [527] =que habría de regir=, _which was to rule_. [528] =Córdoba=. V. map. Its university, having been founded in 1613, is the third oldest in South America, that of San Marcos in Lima (which was founded in 1551) and that of Bogotá (founded in 1572) having preceded it. [529] =Charcas=, capital of Bolivia, to-day called Sucre. It used to be known also under the names of Chuquisaca and La Plata. Its famous university was founded in 1623. It has a school of law, theology, and medicine. [530] =Santiago de Chile=, capital of Chile. V. map. The university was founded in 1738. [531] =Colegio de San Carlos=, in Lima, Peru. [532] =véase el estado general del país=, _see the general condition of the country_. [533] =uno de los más ilustres miembros del Congreso=, _i.e._, Fray Cayetano Rodríguez. Cf. 240, 3. [534] =chocados=, _clashing_. [535] =negándose algunos=, _some being opposed_. [536] =habría que agregar=, _there ought to be added_. [537] =Alto Perú=, name applied to the present republic of Bolivia during the colonial and revolutionary period.