Abstract
Autore:
Chiaramonti Gabriella
Titolo:
"Cittadinanza politica e rappresentanza nel Perù dell’Ottocento: la costituzione e la nuova legge elettorale del 1860-1861"
The 1860 Peruvian Congress reformed the earlier 1856 constitution and the related electoral law. It upheld the lack of property and cultural requirements for access to the suffrage, underlying all the previous constitutions, on the basis of a wide, inclusive, and multiethnic concept of citizenship that basically drew upon the model of the citizen-vecino rooted in the Gaditan and Hispanic tradition. Yet, after an animated debate, the Congress decided to reestablish the two-level indirect suffrage, repealing therefore the direct suffrage that the 1856 text had envisaged. It also provided that each pueblo, regardless of its size and ethnic composition, was entitled to a representative of its own. Adding to the constant lack of updated and reliable censuses, this feature would result in severe shortcomings in shaping the construction of representation that were to emerge in the subsequent decades.
