Original publication: Saavedra, Inmaculada Arias de; Muñoz, Miguel Luis López. “The Relationship between Fraternities and the Government in Spain during the XVIIIth Century. A Research Project.” Confraternitas 6 (1): 2010. 19-22. DOI: 10.33137/confrat.v6i1.13440. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Confraternitas. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Confraternitas under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.