“I Shall Divide and Subdivide Power”: The Fiduciary Conception of Sovereignty in Francisco Pi y Margall’s Republican Federal Project

The fiduciary conception of political power that the republican tradition adopted in its struggle against absolutism was dissolving during the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth. However, in the mid-nineteenth century, some attempts appeared that represent a reemergence of the fiduciary demo...

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Autores: Montés Mora, Jaume, Mundó Blanch, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/225359
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/225359
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Federalisme
Història econòmica
Republicanisme
Filosofia política
Societats fiduciàries
Federalism
Economic history
Republicanism
Political philosophy
Trust companies
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Sumario:The fiduciary conception of political power that the republican tradition adopted in its struggle against absolutism was dissolving during the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth. However, in the mid-nineteenth century, some attempts appeared that represent a reemergence of the fiduciary democratic (or proto-democratic) scheme. One of them was the case of Spanish federalism and its greatest exponent, Francisco Pi y Margall. This article shows that the core of Pimargalian federal republican thought is based on a fiduciary conception of sovereignty, which is grounded in a recovery of the language of revolutionary natural law. (...)