Sovereignty and Constitution: The historiographical categories of Maurizio Fioravanti in the analysis of mexican constitutional history

Abstract

By contrasting, as Maurizio Fioravanti proposes, the two fundamental constitutional experiences of the late eighteenth century with the determinations made within the Mexican independence insurgency between 1811 and 1814, it is possible to corroborate that both the model of primacy of the sovereign legislator of the French Revolution and the Cádiz moment, as well as that corresponding to the moderation of powers in the triumphant Anglo-American sense in Philadelphia, were present in the Mexican expression of the so-called Hispanic Revolutions, especially as far as their most prominent promoters are concerned: the lawyer Ignacio López Rayón and the cleric José María Morelos.