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...that reflected the character of the colonizers. Simon Bolivar and other Latin American revolutionaries tried to emulate the American Constitution, but their carefully crafted documents were quickly subverted by strongmen. When Augustin de Iturbide, Mexico's George Washington, assumed power in 1822, for example, he immediately had himself crowned Emperor. The Great Experiment never took firm root in Mexico or the rest of Latin America, causing a great deal of misunderstanding that persists to this...
...Most of the things hangind over there," says Frye, referring to several yellow parchments in his office, "are Imperial inscriptions about a victory against the Romans or they are dictates from the Emperor or a lot of times, they are funerary inscriptions...
...million people signed their names in get-well registers. Although 60% of Japan's 123 million citizens were born after the 1947 constitution stripped the monarchy of divinity, the national vigil demonstrated that the monarchy still meant something more than the chrysanthemum crest on a ceremonial curtain. "The Emperor is the center of Japan's national psyche," said Seisuke Okuno, a 75-year-old Liberal Democratic member of parliament. That sentiment was not restricted to the old or the far right. The Japanese press has depicted a nation united in sorrow over the impending loss of a great spiritual leader...
United, but not necessarily unanimous. There were scattered calls for an examination of the Emperor's responsibility for World War II and complaints of undue reverence in reporting his current illness. Said Norikatsu Sasagawa, 48, professor of law at the International Christian University: "The Emperor's health has been treated like a classified military secret. The current jishuku is just too much." Leftist radicals showed their disgruntlement by setting two tiny bombs at subway stations only a few blocks away from the moated palace where Hirohito lay ill, and spraying red paint near the entrance to the tumulus...
...present government, meanwhile, was wrestling with some rare but pressing decisions. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, for example, must choose a name for the next imperial era. All official documents except passports are now dated by the era Showa (Enlightened Peace), which began the day Hirohito became Emperor in 1926. Although some critics call the convention a remnant of the dead imperial past, they don't wish to end it, only transfer to the people responsibility for choosing the new name...