Gesto, identidad y memoria

Esta obra es un estudio sobre la figura del juicio político, en ella se analizan tres casos en diferentes épocas de la historia de México: el primero durante la presidencia de Antonio López de Santa Anna; el segundo en la república restaurada, durante el mandato de Benito Juárez y el tercero durante la gestión de Álvaro Obregón, se estudian las coincidencias entre estos casos. Al final se realizan consideraciones acerca de la procedencia del juicio político contra integrantes de la Suprema Corte.

Selection of the papers presented at the XXIII Encuentro Nacional de Investigadores del Pensamiento Novohispano in Zacatecas in 2010.

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