Concept in Definition ABC

The term Unitary refers to that of the unit, which is related to it, or failing that, which has unity, which naturally has the same.

While, by unit it designates the property that every being possesses and that implies that it cannot be divided without its essence being altered or destroyed by this situation. Also, unity supposes singularity, both in number and in quality.

On the other hand, the word Unitary observes a special significance within the Argentine historical context, since in this way one of the most prominent political parties of the 19th century in the aforementioned country has been called.

The Unitary Party was a group politics of liberal tendency that proposed among its bases the need to establish in the country a government centralized, which at that time was known as the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.

Unitarianism gained entity and importance from the times of the Revolution de Mayo and took the model of centralism of what Napoleonic France advocated. Basically, he considered the

Nation It pre-existed the provinces and that they were only internal divisions that in no way presented political relevance.

The unitarians, that is, those who promoted, agreed and were part of this political party they were part of the Buenos Aires elite, intellectuals, military, members of the upper class, who resided in the city of Buenos Aires. The idea of ​​these was that Buenos Aires should be the owner and mistress of the destinies of the country and who would decide over the provinces.

All this from the political point of view, while, from the economic point of view, the Unitary Party proposed free trade, that Buenos Aires was the only port and customs of the territory, modernize the Finance system creating a central bank issuer of currency and that it contracted loans for the financing of works essential for the development of the country.
The opposition to this group was embodied by the Federal Party, which, of course, proposed quite the opposite.

Also the supporter of the aforementioned Argentine political party is called Unitarian.

Themes in Unitary