Relaciones de proximidad entre jueces de paz y comisarios de la ciudad de Buenos Aires durante el segundo gobierno rosista. Un análisis a través de las fichas de clasificación de 1835

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse how the justices of the peace were selected in the city of Buenos Aires from the second period of Juan Manuel de Rosas' government onwards. To do so, we problematize the transformations of the functions of justice, government and police in the city during the first half of the 19th century. Our interest is to demonstrate how the Rosas government made concrete its efforts to position trusted officials in the lower courts of the city, the mechanisms to implement this strategy and the success (or not) of the initiative in the short and long term. The paper first details the functions of justices of the peace and police commissioners as agents of justice and local government. Secondly, it discusses the importance of the documentary archive of the General Archive of the Nation, specifically the classification cards of 1835, describing what they consisted of and how they were made. Finally, we analyse the role played by these cards in the election of candidates and establish the sociographic profiles of the justices of the peace elected to the judiciary in 1836.

Keywords

• Justice of proximity
• Justices of the peace
• Commissioners
• city of Buenos Aires
• Rosismo