Estudios sobre la libertad en América: de la Federación Repúblicana al desafío igualitario de la democracia

The studies in this volume bring together research on the concept of freedom in the early American republic, and span a period from the colonial period to the Civil War. Therefore, it covers a little more than a century in which various currents, thinkers and politicians tried to give a specific and novel bias to the institutional construction of that country, and that it also surpassed past models. Despite such purposes, of which perhaps his most exemplary example was The Federalist, the assumption of slavery would soon reveal the deficiencies of the system. The overlapping of the United States in the world market amid the din of social struggles coming from 19th century Europe and its own internal, territorial and ideological tensions, would suppose a crisis that could only be overcome after an inevitable warlike confrontation.