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effected. Rivadavia, who was the chief of the Unitarios, began by introducing into Buenos Ayres the complete system of a Republic for this province alone, with legislature, government, revenues, etc., like the North American States, and advised the other provinces to do the same, each for itself. This was Unitarianism. The foundations of federal system were thus unconsciously laid by the Unitarios themselves, though at that time they opposed federation. What Rivadavia wished at that moment was to give to the actual governments regular form; but he, San Martin and Bolivar, had the same horror of the idea of federation that the French had in the time of the Girondines. Rodriguez was succeeded in 1824 by General Don Juan Gregorio las Heras. Under his administration a general Congress was convoked, which created a general government under a President, independent of the government of Buenos Ayres. The seat of both the provincial and general governments was the city of Buenos Ayres, and grave inconveniences were the consequence. The provincial government and its representatives were dissolved, and Rivadavia was made President-General on the 8th of February, 1826. He kept that office but one year. The opposition to him in Congress was in the majority, and he resigned. Dr. Don Vicente Lopez was put in his place. When Congress dissolved, the representatives, the majority of