FORMS OF FREEDOM IN NICOLÁS BRAVO’S THOUGHT. OF THE INDEPENDENCE CHALLENGE TO THE REPUBLICAN EPOCH.

Abstract

In the ideological universe of the 19th century, the word freedom, maintained some
complexity and multiples meanings. The article analyzes the types of freedom manifest
in the political speeches of the insurgent - republican Nicolás Bravo during the
different moments of his public life. This will allow contextualizar the relation between
his ideological principles and his interes personal. In the long process of training of
the Mexican nation the transformation of the civil and political values did to evolve
the meaning of said term. The freedom was concebida as an expression of political
independence in opposition to the authority that was supporting the control, the
oppression, the arbitrariness, the slavery and the despotism, also it was thought
about her, it associating with the republican regime, which was demanding the direct
and permanent participation of every citizen in the public matters. Together with
these two should appear more: one who was pleading for a moderate, freedom
aristocratic and opposite to the excesses; and other one that was demanding the
attachment irrestricto to the law.