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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/225359

“I Shall Divide and Subdivide Power”: The Fiduciary Conception of Sovereignty in Francisco Pi y Margall’s Republican Federal Project

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The fiduciary conception of political power that the republican tradition adopted in its struggle against absolutism was dissolving during the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth. However, in the mid-nineteenth century, some attempts appeared that represent a reemergence of the fiduciary democratic (or proto-democratic) scheme. One of them was the case of Spanish federalism and its greatest exponent, Francisco Pi y Margall. This article shows that the core of Pimargalian federal republican thought is based on a fiduciary conception of sovereignty, which is grounded in a recovery of the language of revolutionary natural law. (...)

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Federalisme, Història econòmica, Republicanisme, Filosofia política, Societats fiduciàries

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Federalism, Economic history, Republicanism, Political philosophy, Trust companies

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MONTÉS MORA, Jaume and MUNDÓ BLANCH, Jordi. “I Shall Divide and Subdivide Power”: The Fiduciary Conception of Sovereignty in Francisco Pi y Margall’s Republican Federal Project. Modern Intellectual History. 2025. Vol. 22, num. 3, pags. 446-470. ISSN 1479-2443. [consulted: 8 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/225359

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