Cadiz and the Beginnings of Modern Constitutionalism

The American Historical Review, 2016

Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 2013

and the other members of the Comité Organizador of the conference for their hospitality. 1. The name Constitution of Cádiz comes from the city where this Spanish constitution was promulgated, Cádiz, in Andalusia, Spain. For a description of this vibrant trading city on the Atlantic coast of Spain during the period presented in this

History of Constitutionalism can show us how Constitutional law has "constituted " political realities all along history and Constitutional historians are among those who have the capacity to create more than one " constitutional history " that serves to build up very different traditions and narrations on the origins of constituent elements. The Spanish constitutional history of last years is an exceptional laboratory to study all these processes and their implications that reach their peak when dealing with the " Cadiz constitutional experiment ". As a matter of fact, the readings that the different historiographical currents did on this constitutionalism apropos its Bicentennial clearly reveal the difficulties and challenges of the recent constituent history of a country undergoing continuous constitutional revision and renewal.

1812 Echoes. The Cadiz Constitution in Hispanic History, Culture and Politics, eds. Stephen G.H. Roberts & Adam Sharman, 2013

Complutense Journal of English Studies, 2018

The Constitution of the United States has not been a document specially referred to, nor considered, by Spanish academics who have studied the Constitution of 1812. Even the constitutionalists gathered in Cádiz fled from anything that could evoke a republican and federalist constitution being their purpose radically different. In a general way, it has been the French Constitution of 1791, the reference text "par excellece". But, beyond the liberal principles that Americans and most of the Spaniards embraced, there were some historical coincidences in the United States and Spain which conditioned in a similar way the final result of both political documents.

HUMAN REVIEW. International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional de Humanidades

This paper analyses the American Constitution of 1787 and the Spanish Constitutions of 1812 and 1978. The objective is to analyse their structures and the changes they have undergone throughout history, to find differences that can be explained by the different cultural values that these two groups normally display. As will be seen, the cultural dimension of uncertainty avoidance, amongst others, is the one that has a greater presence in this study. The conclusions drawn from this study show that cultural groups change throughout history, but the cultural roots that they inherit seem to be present through the times.

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Introduction .......................................................................................... 3 I. Constitutional and Anticonstitutional Developments in Spanish History ......................................................................... 6 A. The Constitution of Cádiz .................................................. 7 B. The Constitution of 1931 ................................................... 9 C. Anticonstitutionalism: The Civil War and Francoist Spain ................................................................................ 10 D. Transitioning to the Transformation ................................ 15 II. A Modern Spanish Constitution in the European Constitutional Model ............................................................... 17 A. Drafting a Modern Spanish Constitution ......................... 18 1. Earliest Steps Toward Constitutional Democracy ..... 18 2. Constitutional Drafting Process ................................. 19 3. Influences on th...

Bulletin for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies, 2013

Several articles that explore the impact of Spain's Constitution of Cadiz on the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds in the 1810s and 1820s.

This critical essay, offers an analysis of the recent book by José María Portillo titled Historia Mínima del Constitucionalismo en América Latina. The book is an occasion to reflect on the new approaches on Spanish constitutionalism and to put forward some questions about recurrent problems on Latin American constitutional culture.