La constitución de 1886 como respuesta a la crisis del modelo federal y la confrontación nación-región en Colombia

The 1886 Constitution as on answer to the Federal Model's crisis and the nation-region confrontation in Colombia. In this article, the authors analyze the historical conditions in Colombia, during the second half of the nineteenth century, particularly the period during which the Federal Regime prevailed beginning with the Constitution in 1883 and concluding with the 1886 Constitution. This paper treats the analysis of the internal economy process in order to show its pronounced division and regional differentiation, as opposed to the general model accepted by traditional historical analysis. In the latter the political assumptions include the existence of a neutral space, while the economical analysis favors the influence of the conditions resulting from the development of 'world capitalism as the main explanation of the country's development and cause of its subordination lo the general laws of a capitalist system. This essay uses a methodological and theoretical alternative where it is assumed that commercial activity takes place, not only as a means of accumulating capital-money, but also allows the shaping of the political and economic power that unified the regional elite’s interests around a common project. This common element, of regional peculiarities, is the speculative activity, characteristic of commercial capital. This way the Federal Regime contradictorily, allows the unity o" the regional peculiarities that sustained it thus paving the way for the centralist project of "La Regeneración" consolidated in the 1886 Constitution.