Throne and Liberty. Ideology, discourse and opposition rhetoric in the Progressive Party (1833-1868)

Abstract

Progressive Party wanted to build a nation-state with a constitutional monarchy in which the Crown was the institutional axis and representation of values, principles and objectives of the Nation. This project was accompanied between 1833 and 1843 by a governmental speech which identified the Nation and the national will, inspired by Rousseau, with Progressive Party. This combination prevented his project because it could only work if Throne, Nation and Progressive Party were perceived like the same thing. The imbalance gave wings from 1856 to a rhetoric of opposition against the regime of Isabel II, that culminated in 1868.