Abstract

MOLINA, Eugenia. The Daily Construction of Legitimacy: Attacks on Judges and Abuse of Authority in a Peripheral Jurisdiction of the Spanish Monarchy. Mendoza, 1770-1810. Prohistoria [online]. 2014, vol.21, pp.85-103. ISSN 1851-9504.

This paper addresses the legitimacy built through the daily experience of justice. It analyzes judicial files motivated by behaviors and speeches that had attacked the political order through their resistance to local judges. It also includes causes in which the judges themselves were imputed due to abuse of authority. The aim is to identify the motivations of subjects that exceeded the bounds of accepted or tolerated acts at the local order, but also the way in which the authorities interpreted their behavior, the judicial and infrajudicial procedures initiated to punish the offenders and maintain the social control in the long-term, prevent the repetition of subversive behaviors

Keywords : Legitimacy; Justice; Political order; Juridical culture.

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