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- Title
Conditional Clemency after the Golpe de Melo of 1854: Constitutionalism and Tradition in Early Republican Colombia.
- Authors
Rosenthal, Joshua M.
- Abstract
This article examines indultos after the Golpe de Melo of 1854. While the government hoped that these acts of clemency would erase all traces of the rebellion, a flood of appeals for indultos ensured that the post-war reckoning went on longer than the war itself. Drawing on archival and published material documenting this phenomenon, the article documents post-war politics in New Granada. The tension between popular ideals concerning pardonable behavior and the dispassionate constitutionalism promoted by the government documents the limits of the early republican project.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; COLOMBIAN history, 1832-1886; CLEMENCY; HISTORY of coups d'etats; MELO, Jose Maria; COLOMBIAN politics &; government, 1832-1886; CIVIL war; LAW; HISTORY of constitutionalism; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Historia Crítica, 2017, Issue 63, p75
- ISSN
0121-1617
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7440/histcrit63.2017.04