[Resumo] O Centro de Iniciativa para la Nueva Organización de Galicia nace en Santiago, en xuño de 1873, e pode considerarse como a primeira tentativa colectiva seria feita dende Galicia para pensar o federalismo e o lugar de Galicia na federación española. O coñecemento que hoxe se ten daquel pioneiro ensaio galego en prol do federalismo é, naturalmente, o que nos dá a historiografía galega, a cal se refire en non poucos casos ao devandito centro dun xeito moi significativo, pois de Centro de Iniciativa pasa a Centro de Iniciativas. Agora ben, por que engadir un onde non o hai? Que é o que ese plural nos está a dicir? Neste traballo téntase amosar que ese silencia ou desactiva, sen dúbida involuntariamente, unha parte fundamental da filosofía federal no pensamento do pacto, imposibilitando deste xeito o bo entendemento tanto, historicamente, do proxecto do centro, como a maiores, normativamente, da idea federal.[Abstract] The Centro de Iniciativa para la nueva organización de Galicia was founded in Santiago de Compostela in June 1873. It may be considered Galicia’s first serious collective attempt to think about federalism and to reflect its place within the Spanish federation. All we know today about this pioneering attempt in pursuit of federalism is naturally provided by Galician historiography, which refers in a not inconsiderable number of cases to the Centro, and in a way which is all the more meaningful since the term Centro de Iniciativa has gradually turned into Centro de Iniciativas. What is this plural supposed to mean? In this paper, we will try to explain that this silences or deactivates, although in an undoubtably involuntarily manner, a fundamental part of the philosophy of the federalist pact. Thus, the understanding of the Centro’s federal project from a historical as well as normative perspective was made difficult
