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SERRANO ORTEGA, José Antonio. On the Centralization of the Republic: Military Structure and Political System in Guanajuato, 1835-1847. Secuencia [online]. 2012, n.83, pp.13-42. ISSN 2395-8464.

Most of the delegates in the Constituent Congress of 1835-1836 supported the government's centralization and monopoly of the legitimate use of military force, with the exclusion of any other local or regional institution from its command and organization. We now know that the project to disarm the regions failed. Determining the causes of this failure is the main purpose of this article, which focuses on the department of Guanajuato. This article highlights the fact that in order to understand the history of the military forces of Guanajuato and the failure of the process of military centralization, the military issue must be directly linked to other aspects of the societal structure of Guanajuato, particularly its political system.

Palavras-chave : Guanajuato; military forces; political system; Mexico; centralist republics; 1836-1846; war between Mexico and the United States.