El Orden Social en la Regeneración

Abstract

The troublesome nature of order --assumed as the distinction between legitimacy and illicit, conventional and unusual, recognized and inconsistent-- enforced with determination in the Colombian political life of the nineteenth century, and came to be a major concern around which moved many of the political deliberations of the epoch. This article illustrates some of the major topics relative to the social order difficulties arisen during the political process led by the conservative elite in the late nineteenth century, the so-called “Regeneration”. These arguments will be explained in specific regulatory principles, which configure the individual rights and freedoms essential to establish the public order. Noticeable in the drafting of the Constitution of 1886 and in the following articles, they will change in terms of their original text, in account of a more authoritarian and centralist tendency, detected within a nation-building project, aimed to the homogenization, cohesion and national coexistence. Therefore, it would turn out to be the hope to resolve the complications of order and frustrated peace.