Abstract

FLORES ESCALANTE, Justo Miguel. El primer experimento centralista en Yucatán: el proyecto de gobierno de José Segundo Carvajal (1829-1831). Secuencia [online]. 2005, n.62, pp.46-76. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i62.913.

The article examines the political sphere of 1829 to 1831 from the perspective of political culture, emphasizing the field of ideas in discourse and debate more than in practice. In this respect, it deals with Yucatecan centralism from 1829-1831, which constitutes a government project that was unique in Mexico, since it was several years ahead of the First Mexican Central Republic. It contained the vision of an unitary sovereignty of centralism as opposed to contractualism; the reinforcement of the executive and judicial branches vis-à-vis the legislative branch and the willingness to implement a directed democracy which implied the exclusion of the majority of society as regards citizenship and electoral processes. In order to achieve these aims, government resorted to a blend of liberal ideas from Locke, Constant and Montesquieu and those of the ancien regime.

Keywords : Political culture; unitary sovereignty; contractualism; government projects; bourgeois liberalism.

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