“La discusión por la prensa”. Liberales y conservadores en las páginas de “El Comercio” ante el Congreso peruano de 1860

Abstract

This paper analyses the confrontation that took place in the press –in particular, in the newspaper El Comercio- between liberals and conservatives in relation to the formation of a new Congress in 1860. This Congress had the aim of modifying the Constitution of 1856, then in force. On the basis of this analysis, it is proposed a reflection on the role of public opinion and the limits of the freedom of printing in the mid-nineteenth century in Peru