The republican speech and the social treatment in Chile during the XVIII century

Abstract

The following essay depicts how the Cabildo of Santiago, the representing institution of the neighborhood, together with the representing institution of the Church and the Spanish Corona during the XVIII century held a criminalizing speech about the common people, which was the basis for the execution of a series of penalties, including legal- institutional, with the goal to moralize and channel them to the prevailing values of Borbon reformism. It shows that the means which were used to disciplinary the common people by the authorities of the cities in their self contradict with some of the basic republican values. Therefore if the Republicanism provokes a change in the legitimization of power, if it bases itself on the criminalizing speech of the interfering sectors, it produces a continuity in the execution of itself.