In this article, a historical journey is made around the creation, evolution, disappearance
and subsequent resurgence of the Council of State corporation, as an institution that
legislates on the destinies of the newly liberated provinces of the Spanish monarchy
in what are today Colombia and Venezuela. There are two conjunctural moments
that make up this institutional event. The first experience occurs in 1817, in the
newly liberated province of Angostura. Promoted by Bolívar, this provisional Council
of State is within the institutional limitations of a government that is still insurgent,
in the emergence of a state of war and barracks
