Sovereignty and Punishment in Charcas. The Military and Judicial Repression of the La Plata and La Paz Juntas, 1808-1810

  • Marta Irurozqui Victoriano GEA, IH-CSIC
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RCHA.2011.v37.3
Keywords: Violence, Sovereignty, System of Juntas, Military Repression, Judicial Process, Charcas, Audiencia, Cabildos, Viceroyalty of Río de La Plata, Viceroyalty of Peru, 19th. Century.

Abstract

The military repression of the juntas of La Plata and La Paz in 1810, as much as its judicial endorsement through convictions of diverse nature, referred to the resolution of a double intra-continental conflict of authority and jurisdictional influences: between viceroys and intendentes against other bodies like the audiencia; and between the viceroyalties of Río de La Plata and Peru. From the transformation of Charcas through violence into an insurance for the survival and conservation of viceroyal spaces, powers and capacities came the lost chance for a royal delegative institution -the audiencia- to legitimately assume undivided sovereignty, thereby fostering its dispersion through the cabildos.

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Irurozqui Victoriano M. (2012). Sovereignty and Punishment in Charcas. The Military and Judicial Repression of the La Plata and La Paz Juntas, 1808-1810. Revista Complutense de Historia de América, 37, 49-72. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RCHA.2011.v37.3
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Vol. 37 (2011): Dosier: La institucionalización del Estado en América Latina.Justicia y violencia política en la primera mitad del sXIX
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