olitical, and social reforms. But it also served to create a new form of legitimation" (Viqueira, 37). "The Regulations of 1786, boldly modern and markedly repressive, were the appropriate means for the creation of a theater that corresponded to the ideals of the Enlightenment" (Viqueira, 50)."The Regulation of 1786 dealt with many other details that touched upon diverse subjects, but all related to the imposition of good order in the theater" (Viqueira, 50). Brandishing reason, which they considered to be all-powerful, the enlightened thinkers wished to reform society, to clear out its abasement, and to lead it along the road to progress" (Viqueira, 36). "To avoid losing its public, the coliseum had to set aside the plays of the Enlightenment, which reflected good taste, and scheduled plays that appealed to the common people" (Viqueira, 89). As shown the common people, rejected the reforms that the Spanish crown was imposing on them. They rejected their regulations, and lead them to rebel against the Spanish Crown. "I contend that these reforms involved more than the promulgation of new tax laws, the trimming of corporate privileges, and, and the rationalization and expansion of the bureaucracy; Reformers through new institutions like the Alcaldes de Barrio - engaged in radical social engineering to produce a more rational and productive citizen" (Voekl, 183). "Before 1810, two distinct, rival, and incompatible forms of society, two differing kinds of civilization existed in the Argentine Republic: one being Spanish, European, and cultivated, the other barbarous, American, and almost wholly of native growth. The revolution which occurred in the cities acted only as the cause, the impulse, which set these distinct forms of national existence face to face, and gave occasion for a contest between them, to be ended after lasting many years, by the absorption of one into the other" (Sarmiento, 54). "But what my object requires me to noti...
