Antioquia durante la Federación, 1850-1885

Abstract

The Federalism in Colombia, formally instituted by the national Constitution of 1853, it reigned among the decades of 1850 and 1880, being ratified by the constitutional reformations of 1858 and 1863. These reformations looked for to transform the even existent colonial institutions for other in agreement ones with the new realities of the world capitalism of free competition and with the interests of the sectors that struggled for the control of the power, giving free circulation to the earth and the indigenous and slave manpower. For the case from Antioquia the relative economic and politics stability of the one that enjoyed the State of Antioquia during the second half of the XIX century, added to "a predominant ethnic and cultural homogeneity of their society", it constituted a mark more than appropriate for the formation of one of the most solid political hegemonies in the country during the period. The "conservative federalism" that was built in Antioquia during the radical regime it was founded basically in the defence of the region, in a relative political isolation of the centre and of the other States, in the care of their wealth on the part of the elites of both parties, in a support without restrictions of the Catholic Church and in the recognition of their paper like institution of cohesion and social classification.

Keywords: Conservative federalism, economic protectionism, Legislature, Regionalism.