Along with the first lawyers arrived in America also the social imaginary and negative stereotypes about the profession. Faced with such criticism, it originated in the sixteenth century a literature of professional affirmation. The American jurist Juan de Matienzo, when he was still Rapporteur of the Chancery of Valladolid and did not think moving to America, wrote his book: Dialogus Pintiani Advocati Relatoris et Senatus, which regarded with distrust the government of swashbuckling men, considering that the best managers of Peru had been the lawyers who, not made up the aristocracy, showed greater fidelity to the crown than to their lineages, so the ideal ruler, to his view, should be the lawyer- viceroy.
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