Marco Lino’s flag proposals for a “Portuguese Confederation”

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• Introduction
• Proposal for the Portuguese Republic
• Proposal for the Portuguese Atlantic Islands Federation
• Proposal for the Portuguese Republic of Guinea
• Proposal for the Portuguese Republic of Angola
• Proposal for the Portuguese Republic of Mozambique
• Proposal for the Portuguese Federation of the East

• Portugal

Introduction

A draft for a “Constitution of the Portuguese Confederation” was written by a Marcolino Cardoso in 1969.05, as a thesis to be presented at the Opposition Congress to be held that year in Aveiro (note this happends still during the 1926-1974 dictatorship in Portugal); however he was later forbidden to do so (according to the author, as a form of prosecution onto himself, even among oppositionist circles).

It was finnally published in 1974.05, in a book intitled A Confederação Portuguesa (Renascença Editora: Lisboa, 1974), under the psudonym “Marco Lino” [lno74] — and to which volume were added in the last moment many other texts suddenly become publishable after the revolution of 1974.04.25.

Apart from illustrating the author’