Entre dos jurisdicciones. La labor de los jueces comisionados y la desarticulación de las redes locales de poder político. Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz en el siglo XVIII
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2021-02-26
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Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins
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Este artículo se propone contribuir a la discusión sobre el fortalecimiento del absolutismo en el contexto del ascenso de la casa de Borbón a la corona española. Desde una perspectiva americana, la investigación hace foco en la figura de los jueces comisionados, en la ciudad de Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, perteneciente a la jurisdicción de la gobernación de Buenos Aires, durante la primera mitad del siglo XVIII. Estos magistrados, en relación directa con el gobernador y su brazo de confianza en la ciudad, se constituyeron en un instrumento cuyo objetivo fue la desarticulación de las redes locales de poder político. El juez comisionado y su acción judicial nos permiten poner a prueba la imagen de los enfoques historiográficos sobre “el estado moderno absoluto”, como un camino lineal de fortalecimiento del absolutismo en desmedro de las autonomías de la administración colonial americana.
This article aims to contribute to the discussion on the strengthening of absolutism in the context of the rise of the Bourbon house to the Spanish crown. From an American perspective, the investigation focuses on the figure of commissioned judges, in the city of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, belonging to the jurisdiction of the Buenos Aires governorate, during the first half of the 18th century. These magistrates, in direct relationship with the governor and his trust arm in the city, became an instrument whose objective was the disarticulation of local networks of political power. The commissioned judge and his judicial action allow us to test the image of historiographical approaches to “the absolute modern state”, as a linear path of strengthening absolutism to the detriment of the autonomies of the American colonial administration.
This article aims to contribute to the discussion on the strengthening of absolutism in the context of the rise of the Bourbon house to the Spanish crown. From an American perspective, the investigation focuses on the figure of commissioned judges, in the city of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, belonging to the jurisdiction of the Buenos Aires governorate, during the first half of the 18th century. These magistrates, in direct relationship with the governor and his trust arm in the city, became an instrument whose objective was the disarticulation of local networks of political power. The commissioned judge and his judicial action allow us to test the image of historiographical approaches to “the absolute modern state”, as a linear path of strengthening absolutism to the detriment of the autonomies of the American colonial administration.
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Jueces comisionados, Siglo XVIII, Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Poder Real, Autonomías locales, Commissioned judges, Local autonomies