Revolución y Constitución en la obra de Silvio Zavala, 1930-1932

Abstract

The early works of Silvio Zavala —published between 1930 and 1932— when he was a law student in Mexico and in Spain, show his interest in constitutional law and the political environment of his time. He dedicated himself to the study of the Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1917 and the constitutional activity of the Spanish Republic. He found, in the first, the institutional beginnings of the winning faction in the fighting which followed the Mexican Revolution; in the second, the disagreements and the impossibility of consensus among the protagonists who participated within and outside the Spanish parlament (warning of repression and the civil war that would come later). The thematic sequence of these short articles published in Mexico in the Revista de Ciencias Sociales de la Facultad de Jurisprudencia, in the daily El Nacional and in journals such as Universidad de México and Crisol offers an interesting comparative view which we should consider to be the first installments of the historiographical work of a great historian of colonial American institutions, who discovered and confirmed his vocation in the years that preceded the end of the Spanish Civil War.