Abstract

ROSENTHAL, Joshua M.. Conditional Clemency after the Golpe de Melo of 1854: Constitutionalism and Tradition in Early Republican Colombia. hist.crit. [online]. 2017, n.63, pp.75-96. ISSN 0121-1617.  https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit63.2017.04.

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.

Keywords : Colombia; politics; law; civil war; indultos; constitutionalism.

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