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The Municipality and the System of Checks and Balances in Spanish American Colonial Administration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Fredrick B. Pike
Fredrick B. Pike*
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University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
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Perhaps the most characteristic feature of the colonial policy devised by the Hapsburgs to govern Spanish holdings in America was the system of intervention, checks, balances, and overlapping authority. Many modern students express impatient disapproval of this system, assuming that it resulted in governmental inefficiency if not complete stagnation. By applying a different set of criteria, however, and one which was certainly more in the minds of those who fashioned the Spanish colonial structure, intervention, checks and balances may be judged a brilliantly conceived means of maintaining under colonial status a vast overseas empire. Considered in these terms, it is the opinion of the writer that nowhere was the success of this system more evident than on the level of local administration in the “ Indies,” where it served to prevent the rise of an unchecked spirit of local autonomy while tending to preserve sentiments of loyalty to the crown.

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The Americas , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , October 1958 , pp. 139 - 158
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1958

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21 Ibid., January 1, 1629, VII, 10–12; February 3, 1629, 31–34; August 30, 81–84; January 23, 1630, VII, 113.

22 Ibid., September 6, 1632, VII, 361.

23 Ibid., September 27, 1634, VII, 423.

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39 A good example of this is found in the Ordinances of Viceroy Toledo for the good government of Cuzco, La Fundación Española del Cuzco, 85.

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42 Actas del Cabildo, Quito, August 8, 1597, XIII, 26–28.

43 Actas del Cabildo, Mexico City, November 5, 1566, VII, 304; January 15, 1591, X, 32. Actas del Cabildo, Lima, December 6, 1596, VII, 565.

44 For the power of governors, corregidores and alcaldes mayores in confirming and interfering in elections see: Actas del Cabildo, Lima, XVI, notas, 550, 551; June 14, 1614, XVII, 603. Ordinances of Viceroy Toledo for the government of Cuzco, Fundación Española del Cuzco, I, 64–66. For their powers as presiding officers over cabildo meetings see: Actas del Cabildo, Quito, June 9, 1535,1, 88–89. Actas del Cabildo, Lima, July 30, 1535, I, 44; January 1, 1536, 80; December 30, 1538, 276; X, appendix, 537–543. Actas del Cabildo, Mexico City, March 9, 1592, X, 158. Actas del Cabildo de Caracas, January 2, I, 1595, 18. Actas del Cabildo, Buenos Aires, January 18, 1621, III, 73; January 1, 1668, XIII, 5; November 5, 1672, XIII, 478. Cedula of Charles I to the cabildo of Vera Cruz, 1536, Cedulario de puga, I, 402. Cedula of Philip II to the cabildo of Cartagena, 1572, Encinas, , Cedulario, 3, 290.Google Scholar Colección de Algunos Documentos sobre los primeros tiempos de Arequipa, mandados publicar por el Concejo Provincial con ocasión del primer centenario de la Batalla de Ayacucho (Arequipa, 1924), p. 131. Ordinances of Viceroy Toledo for the government of Cuzco, Fundación Española del Cuzco, 75. Recopilación, libro 4, tit. 9, ley x. For their power in confirming ordinances see: Actas del Cabildo, Lima, September 20, 1538, I, 245. Cedula of 1558, Cedulario de Puga, II, 312–313. de San Miguel, Juan W. Rodríguez (editor and annotator) Pandectas Hispano Meguanas o sea código general comprensivo de las leyes generales, útiles y vivas de las Siete Partidas, Recopilación Novísima de Leyes de las Indias, autos y providencias conocido por de Montemayor y Beleña, y cédulas posteriores hasta el año 1830 (México, D.F., 1840), 2, 256.Google Scholar For their power in financial administration see: Recopilación, libro 4, tit. 13, ley ii. Actas del Cabildo, Lima, October 6, 1589, XI, 172; XVI, notas, 556. Actas del Cabildo, Mexico City, July 9, 1590, X, 5–6; October 8, 1590, X, 20. Actas del Cabildo, Santiago, May 29, 1699, XLIV, 265. For their control over public works see: Recopilación, libro 4, tit. 16, ley i, ii, iii; libro 8, tit. 27, ley xiii, xiv. Actas del Cabildo de Arequipa, February 14, 1544, in Barriga, , Documentos para la historia de Arequipa, 1, 201. Google Scholar Actas del Cabildo de Caracas, August 22, 1595, I, 422. Actas del Cabildo, Santiago, May 22, 1699, XLIV, 363.

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45 See above, notes 22–28. See also, Cédula of Philip II to the Audiencia of New Granada, 1562, Encinas, , Cedulario, 2, 142.Google Scholar

46 Cedula of Charles I to the cabildos and governors of the Indies, 1539, quoted in part in Actas del Cabildo, Lima, I, 365.

47 Actas del Cabildo, Lima, May 8, 1592, XI, 666; October 16, 1611, XVI, 503–505; February 27, 1612, XVII, 44; March 7, 1612, XVII, 55–58; March 12, 67–73; September 14, 183–184; March 29, 1614, 552–553.

48 Recopilación, libro 4, tit. 11, ley v.

49 Cedula of Charles II to the viceroys, audiencias, ciudades, villas and lugares, universidades and ecclesiastical cabildos of the Indies, May 4, 1692, quoted in Actas del Cabildo, Mexico City, March 13, 1693, XXVI, libro 35, p. 69.

50 Cedula of Philip II to the viceroys, governors and royal officials of the Indies, 1573, Encinas, , Cedulario, 1, 312.Google Scholar

51 Cedula of Charles I to Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, 1535, Cedulario de Puga, I, 373. The same cedula is reproduced in Encinas, , Cedulario, 1, 77.Google Scholar Other examples of similar royal orders curbing audiencia intervention include the following: Cedula of Philip II to the alcaldes de crímen of the Audiencia of Mexico City, 1563, Encinas, op. cit., II, 84. Cedula of Philip II to the alcaldes de crímen of the Audiencia of Mexico City, 1570, ibid., II, 84–85. Cedula of Philip II to the Audiencia of Sante Fe de Bogotá, 1572, ibid., I, 75. Cedula of Philip II to the Audiencia of Panama City, 1574, ibid., I, 75–76.

52 Actas del Cabildo, Lima, January 1, 1592, XI, 605–606; January 1, 1607, XVI, 538; XVI, notas, 599. Recopilación, libro 4, tit. 9, ley vii, viii. Cedula of Ferdinand to the Audiencia of Santo Domingo, 1514, Encinas, op. cit., III, 40. Cedula of Charles I to the Audiencia of Mexico City, 1530, ibid., III, 40–41. Cedula of Charles I to the Audiencia of Panama, 1540, ibid., III, 39. Cedula of Charles I to the Audiencia of Santa Fe de Bogotá, 1555, ibid., III, 39. Cédula of Philip II to the Audiencia of Lima, 1568, ibid., III, 40–41. Cedula of Philip II to the Cabildo of Quito, in Actas del Cabildo, Quito, October 28, 1573, IX, 262–264. Cedula of Philip II to the Audiencia of Santo Domingo, 1582, Encinas, op. cit., III, 40.

53 Cedula of Philip II to the Audiencia of Santo Domingo, 1570, Encinas, op. cit., II, 16.

54 Cedula of Philip II to the Viceroy of New Spain, 1591, in Actas del Cabildo, Mexico City, X, 87.

56 Actas del Cabildo, Mexico City, July 12, 1529, II, 13; September 3, 1590, X, 16; April 22, 1591, X, 73.

56 Cedula of Charles I to the Viceroy of New Spain, 1548, Cedulario de puga, II, 140.

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58 Actas del Cabildo, Santa Fé, March 4, 1636, I, 269–274.

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64 Actas del Cabildo, Mexico City, January 9, 1562, VII, 8; December 22, 1564, VII, 288; October 8, 1642, XXVI, 370; October 18, 1642, XXVI, 370. Actas del Cabildo, Quito, February 20, 1607, XX, 375–376. Actas del Cabildo, Lima, April 29, 1613, XVIII, 383; May 29, 1615, XVIII, 795; October 2, 1615, XVIII, 845–846; October 23, 858; November 23, 893. Actas del Cabildo, Buenos Aires, October 29, 1619, IV, 79; April 24, 1668, XIII, 44–45. Actas del Cabildo, Santiago, June 19, 1671, XXXVIII, 152. Colección de algunos documentos sobre los primeros tiempos de Arequipa, 125.