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The relationship between a traditionally centralized power and a system of commissions and taxes overwhelmed, have long been one of the axes of submission and political resistance . The viceroyalty and religion made common cause around the idea of respect for authority within the colony and a relatively orderly class society. The royalists were looking for a strong centralized power, but wanted to establish its legitimacy in the sovereign desire of a people liberated. They attacked the trade associations that restricted the freedom to work with the same vehemence with which they attacked the submission of illiterate people. The enemies of the viceroyalty authorities increasingly focused their attacks on its excessive centralization, which has in any way dependent on the type of centralization of power (economic, political or territorial) which was the subject of complaint .

The geographical and political decentralization contributed to the ardor of local governments. In fact, the confederation of the United Provinces of New Granada was a response to the hierarchy of power of the Constitution of the State of Cundinamarca. However, disputes between centralization and decentralization, have been conditioned also by land disputes and property rights . And in this case, transport systems and communications, which had often been a requirement of local elites, had the effect of making it easier for central government control with a consequent reduction of local autonomy.

It is complex to distinguish between opportunistic speeches of those who were away from power and assumed deep beliefs of those who sought the removal of the viceroyalty by the Confederation of United Provinces of New Granada, ...

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...s: "dissolves ethnic and social tensions." Again, the historiography frameworks should be able to reflect the conflicts inherited, and the prevailing dichotomy between independence movements.

Is it possible to regain a sense of the historiography tradition in the interpretation of these languages? Some of the works to celebrate the Bicentennial of Independence seem to respond positively, others prefer to remain in a rhetorical ambiguity of surface representations. The stories that celebrate the heroes or the homelands, they retain the apparently deep substrate national identities. But a poor end up doing a disservice to the historical discipline, to keep it away from the progress in the social sciences. One of the rigorous challenges to the Colombian historiography is to abandon the language versions built on drama. This challenge proposed by Germán Colmenares.

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