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  • Chapter Four - Imperial Nations in Latin America

  • Chris Thornhill, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    A Sociology of Post-Imperial Constitutions
    Published online:
    06 December 2024
    Print publication:
    12 December 2024, pp 220-269

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the emergence of constitutional law in South America, showing how military politics in the Spanish and Portuguese empires had enduring impact on the formation of citizenship regimes in this region. It focuses on Brazil and Colombia as two divergent but also overlapping models of militarized constitutionalism. It assesses how both states acquired military and semi-imperialist features as their independence was consolidated. It also discusses how national processes of integration and citizenship formation were conducted by armies, such that, in Brazil in particular, the army was an early trier of democratic institution building.