Tabla de Contenidos: “…Born with the revolution: from Los Reyes to the lettered city -- Tempering passions: everyday life and curricular formation at the Morelia Seminary -- The grammar of civilization: language, rhetoric, and the shaping of public opinion -- "The ways of legitimacy": constitutionalism and church-state relations in el derecho natural -- The defiant bishop: the Catholic Church confronts the liberal Reforma -- Distant allies: conservatism and the twilight of the Catholic state…”