This Federalist Constitution was approved by the representatives of the Provinces of Margarita, Mérida, Cumaná, Barinas, Barcelona, Trujillo, and Caracas, who declared their independence from the Spanish Empire during the constituent Congress and agreed to implement the name "States of Venezuela" as the official name.

"[3]According to the Federalist system established in the Constitution, each region had the power to administer and govern itself autonomously as long as it did not contradict the principles of the nation.

In the Constitution of 1811, in addition to the influences of the political liberalism of the French Revolution, it received the direct influence of the American Constitution in the configuration of the state as a federal state, fostered such reception by the situation of local autonomy that the cabildos and town councils of the provinces that later formed Venezuela had.

Indeed, when the American countries declared their independence from Spain at the beginning of the 19th century, it can be said that the administrative system of the nascent republics of the new world was completely decentralized.

On the other hand, there were seven provinces of the Captaincy General of Venezuela that constituted the federal republic of 1811, and it was the local-federal power that this text consecrated, which marked the beginning of a decentralized system of government in Venezuela, in which, despite the proposals of El Libertador, the power remained in the provinces-cities, the central government being an entelechy.