The Legal Revolution in Town Politics: Oaxaca and Yucatán, 1812-1825

Caplan, Karen D.

doi:10.1215/00182168-83-2-255

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“…Political historians have convincingly shown that elections were a widespread practice of the late 18 th century political culture (Benson 1946; Posada-Carbó 1996). Thus, with the 1808 crisis, now contested elections repeated in vice regal capitals as well as in pueblos de indios or small towns across of Spanish America (Warren 1996; Caplan 2003; Echeverri 2015; Ternavasio 2015; Sartorious 2015 for Cuba’s exceptional case) and the 1812 charter organised the template for popular sovereignty and the recognition of equal political rights for all citizens (Eastman and Sobrevilla Perea 2015). The Buenos Aires constitution of 1821 granted universal male suffrage — which was replicated later in other provinces (Annino 1995).…”

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Representation Without Taxation, Taxation Without Consent: The Legacy of Spanish Colonialism in America

Irigoin

2016

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The essay examines Spain’s colonial legacy in the long-run development of Spanish America. It surveys the fiscal and constitutional outcomes of independence and assesses the relative burden imposed by colonialism. Constitutional asymmetries between revenue collecting and spending agents constrainedde factogovernments’ power to tax. Inherent disparities embedded in the colonial fiscal system worsened with vaguely defined representation for subjects and territories andvexedtheir aggregation into a modern representative polity. Governments with limited fiscal capacity failed to deliver public goods and to distribute the costs and benefits of independence equitably. Growing indirect taxes, debt and money creation allowed them to transfer the fiscal burden to other constituents or future generations. Taxpayers became aware of the asymmetry between private contributions and public goods and hence favoured a low but regressive taxation. Comparisons with trajectories in the metropolis and the United States are offered to qualify this legacy.

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Section: The Legacymentioning

confidence: 99%