Abstract

CRESPO, María Victoria. From classic Republicanism to liberal Modernity: the great conceptual mutation of dictatorship in Spanish American revolutionary context (1810-1830). Prismas [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.1. ISSN 1852-0499.

The paper examines the conceptual history of dictatorship during the Spanish American revolutions. It explores the semantic displacements and transformations of "dictatorship" during the period that spans from 1810 to 1830. It argues that along with other democratic revolutions (mainly the French Revolution) the Spanish American revolutionary context was the space and time in which dictatorship abandoned its classical republican meaning to become a concept that refers to authoritarian political forms, which eliminate the principles of separation of powers and protection of rights of constitutionalism, and with a tendency to permanence, that is, the modern, liberal meaning of the concept.

Keywords : Dictatorship; Revolution; Extraordinary powers; Tyranny; Constitutionalism.

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