This article investigates the egalitarian discourse and the uses of the concept of equality in the Buenos Aires periodical press between the beginning of the revolutionary process in 1810 and the collapse of the central power after the battle at Cepeda in early 1820. We seek to examine the network of concepts linked to this notion and its changes throughout the period. We start from the hypothesis that there were different conceptions about what equality was, not only among the enlightened factions settled in Buenos Aires, but also in relation to the aspirations that promoted the political participation of the popular classes, this concept being an object of constant dispute. The article seeks to reveal, through some study cases, the multiplicity of dimensions with which the notion of equality was present in the press of the time. Without intending to cover all the occasions in which it was debated, the selection we have made aims to contain this multiplicity, which can be broadly grouped into equality among individuals—whether legal, political or social—as well as equality among peoples— Peninsular/American or among the Rio de la Plata’s provinces—.