La Constitución de Cádiz en la Provincia de Pasto, Virreinato de Nueva Granada, 1812-1822

In the midst of the imperial and colonial crisis, the loyal provinces of the Vice-royalty of New Granada tried to enforce the Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, at least in relation with those rules and institutions that did not destabilize further the already precarious survival of the imperial regime. In the case of the royalist province of Pasto, the attemps to implant the Hispanic constitutional regime took place during the two periods of hegemony of the doceanista liberalism: 1810-1814 and 1820-1822