The expression of Deán López Cepero's political commitment in Lecciones políticas and Catecismo religioso, moral y político

Abstract

Enlightened and liberal, the priest native of Jerez de la Frontera Manuel López
Cepero is a figure emphasized in the cultural and literary context that will take part actively in the political life of the first third of the 19th century, faced so much antimonarchic revolutionaries as to frenchified, lukewarm before the usurpation of the legitimate power. Fruit of his political commitment with his mother land and in this first propaganda line that the catechisms and primers suppose for the people, publishes a few Lecciones políticas (1813) and one Catecismo religioso, moral y político (1821) with the aim of the political indoctrination of the youth in the new revolutionary ideas of the Constitution of Cádiz. The temporary separation of both texts determines both his structure and the expression of the content and bears witness to the ideological moderation of the author, imposed by the circumstances of the moment, more political and involved in the defense of the new constitutional regime expressed for extensively in the Lessons, more civil and illustrated and more concise in the recollection of the rules constitutionalists in the Catechism.