The best way to ensure stability of any Spanish Empire in America, whether one ruled from Spain, or ruled from Americas, would raising legal status of criollos to be equal with peninsulares.
Spanish broke cardinal rule of any imperialist: keep local elites happy to act as convenient middleman with locals. Spanish Empire was too big to be ruled directly from Madrid.
Cadiz Cortes claimed sovereignty over entire Spanish Empire, something that criollos resented.
This is something that alternate king of Spain could exploit in his struggle with Spanish Cortes.
Give them autonomy by legally removing colonies from under rule of Peninsular Cortes, giving them their own Cortes (one for each viceroyalty), ruling them as independent kingdoms under personal union.
This would be too much for Spanish Cortes, which could somehow manage to overthrow him, so he'd escape to Americas, and keep local thrones, since he'd be convenient for criollos as symbol against Peninsular attempts to reconquer them. He'd reign over loosely aligned union of Latin American states.
Spanish broke cardinal rule of any imperialist: keep local elites happy to act as convenient middleman with locals. Spanish Empire was too big to be ruled directly from Madrid.
Cadiz Cortes claimed sovereignty over entire Spanish Empire, something that criollos resented.
This is something that alternate king of Spain could exploit in his struggle with Spanish Cortes.
Give them autonomy by legally removing colonies from under rule of Peninsular Cortes, giving them their own Cortes (one for each viceroyalty), ruling them as independent kingdoms under personal union.
This would be too much for Spanish Cortes, which could somehow manage to overthrow him, so he'd escape to Americas, and keep local thrones, since he'd be convenient for criollos as symbol against Peninsular attempts to reconquer them. He'd reign over loosely aligned union of Latin American states.
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