Os limites do reformismo bourbônico

a propósito da administração da justiça na América espanhola

Abstract

This essay considers the possibilities of reforming the administration of
justice in the 18th century, in order to address some problems related
to the so-called Bourbon reformism in America. From the legal and
institutional framework established (justice of judges), it discusses the
judicial policy of the Catholic Monarchy with regard to the American
Audiencias and the reactions it provoked among the creole lawyers, in
order to show the limits imposed by the traditional legal order to the
political action of the Crown (reform as restoration).