Guáimaro Constitution

República de Cuba en Armas
1869–1899
Coat of arms of the República de Cuba en Armas
Chronology
Spanish Cuba American Cuba

The Guáimaro Constitution was the governing document for the República de Cuba en Armas written by the idealistic and politically liberal faction (the Constituent Assembly of 1869) in the insurgency that contested Spanish colonial rule in Cuba and imposed on Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, the conservative who claimed leadership of the independence movement.

It was nominally in effect from 1869 to 1878 during the Ten Years' War against Spain, the first of a series of conflicts that led to Cuban independence in 1898.

The constitutional assembly abolished slavery, approved a motion for annexation of Cuba by the United States, and established a separation of powers.

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