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MOLINA, Eugenia. The Reconfiguration of the Local Elite during the Revolutionary Process in Mendoza (Argentina), 1810-1820. An Analysis based on Assistant Justice Officials. Secuencia [online]. 2009, n.73, pp.11-31. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i73.1063.

Within the context of institutional reconfiguration undertaken since 1810, minor magistrates engaged in the administration of justice and the police force occupied a key political role. This was due, on the one hand, following the hypothesis put forward by Antonio Annino, to the fact that revolutionary legality was based on "the government of judges" since it was town halls that expressed the proclaimed resumption of sovereignty with the representation that should be legitimized by the inexperienced authorities and this was applied to the minor mayors who administered justice at the judges' behest. It was also due to the fact that they acted as intermediaries in the relations between government and population on an everyday basis. In this respect, the paper concerns the people who served as lower judicial magistrates, in order to observe how the social arc of public participation widened as access to resources of political power were opened up to those that had thitherto not taken part in it.

Palavras-chave : Revolution; Elite; Administration of Justice; Revolutionary Legality; Legitimacy; Governance; Social Politicization.