Abstract

PEREZ ZAMARRIPA, Abisai. From a Monarchy of Vecinos to a Nation of Citizens: Defining Citizenship during the Bourbon Reforms and the Early Independence Period, Puebla 1780-1825. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.159, pp.219-245.  Epub Sep 30, 2020. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v40i159.348.

This article explains how, from 1780-1825, local authorities and inhabitants of the city of Puebla defined the modern concept of citizenship by associating it with the traditional Hispanic notion of residence (vecindad). It analyzes constitutions, proclamations, catechisms and pamphlets, which reveal different contemporary meanings of citizenship. The study first addresses the conceptual change between vecindad and the enlightened concept of citizenship, while the second part elucidates how the society as a whole assimilated the notion of citizenship in terms of freedom, while the local authorities constructed a concept closely related to the notion of political equality. Thus, this text demonstrates how both the general population and the local authorities reinterpreted the modern juridical and social meaning of citizenship in the early 19th-century Mexico.

Keywords : Citizenship; Spanish Constitution of 1812; Bourbon Reforms; political catechisms; construction of the nation-state.

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