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"Our Pueblos, Fractions with No Central Unity": Municipal Sovereignty in Central America, 1808-1821

"Our Pueblos, Fractions with No Central Unity": Municipal Sovereignty in Central America, 1808-1821 Jordana Dym tury was the establishment of new republics that were independent not only of European sovereignty but also of monarchy. This article uses the case study of Central America to suggest that, in at least some parts of Spanish America, this political revolution did not just transform vassals into citizens and colonies into nation-states; it also identified a need to shift from a classical European political philosophy based on municipal sovereignty — that of the pueblos — to a politics of national sovereignty — that of the pueblo. In Spanish America, the political revolution that occurred between 1808 and 1821 delayed elites’ realization that a choice between the two was required. This period of upheaval following the collapse of the Spanish monarchy witnessed the emergence of leaders who simultaneously deployed both national and municipal sovereignties and who implemented both neo-Scholastic and liberal policies. Therefore, the move from municipal to national sovereignty, I argue, reflects not a poor or failed transition from traditional to modern governance but a gradual realization that a reconstituted central authority was incompatible with a hybrid politi- One of many revolutions that swept the Americas in the early nineteenth cen- The author would like http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hispanic American Historical Review Duke University Press

"Our Pueblos, Fractions with No Central Unity": Municipal Sovereignty in Central America, 1808-1821

Dym, Jordana
Hispanic American Historical Review , Volume 86 (3) – Aug 1, 2006
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Jordana Dym tury was the establishment of new republics that were independent not only of European sovereignty but also of monarchy. This article uses the case study of Central America to suggest that, in at least some parts of Spanish America, this political revolution did not just transform vassals into citizens and colonies into nation-states; it also identified a need to shift from a classical European political philosophy based on municipal sovereignty — that of the pueblos — to a politics of national sovereignty — that of the pueblo. In Spanish America, the political revolution that occurred between 1808 and 1821 delayed elites’ realization that a choice between the two was required. This period of upheaval following the collapse of the Spanish monarchy witnessed the emergence of leaders who simultaneously deployed both national and municipal sovereignties and who implemented both neo-Scholastic and liberal policies. Therefore, the move from municipal to national sovereignty, I argue, reflects not a poor or failed transition from traditional to modern governance but a gradual realization that a reconstituted central authority was incompatible with a hybrid politi- One of many revolutions that swept the Americas in the early nineteenth cen- The author would like

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Published: Aug 1, 2006

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