Martian Republicanism

One of the most significant issues of Cuban iuspubliscistic thought in the 19th century is the evolution of representative democracy to participatory democracy.Its greatest exponent in this period was José Martí.His thought is condensed in the wellknown phrase: "... with all and for the good of all."Moved by two questions that revolve around it, we develop our inquiries in this paper.The first of them tries to unravel what the apostle meant when he said: "with all".This leads to investigate the type of republic he envisioned for Cuba and the Latin American countries.What was the "good of all" to which he alludes and how would the people be able to perceive that common good? is the second question we ask ourselves.The elucidation of this last unknown leads us to venture into Marti's worldview of education as a right and duty of all people.The highest point of his ideas -in this direction -is in the conception of the statutes of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.In them, a position has materialized regarding the legal dilemma of the 19th century, between the Baron de Montesquieu and Juan Jacobo Rousseau.In order to profile Martí's republicanism, it was also imposed on us as an imperative to make a brief outline of the progressive maturity of his thought through his experiences in Spain, in Latin American countries and in the United States.