- Source: Constituent Cortes
The Constituent Cortes (Spanish: Las Cortes Constituyentes) is the description of Spain's parliament, the Cortes, when convened as a constituent assembly.
In the 20th century, only one Constituent Cortes was officially opened (Cortes are "opened" in accordance with a mediaeval royal proclamation), and that was the Republican Cortes in 1931. It drafted a new constitution but its work was overturned by the victory of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.
The Cortes in 1977 enacted a new Spanish constitution which it had drafted. It was never officially considered "constituent", as the assembly chosen in the 1977 general elections was not mandated at the time to create a new constitution, but to rule under the constitution of the former dictatorship – the so-called Leyes Fundamentales (fundamental laws).
See also
Convention Parliament
Constitutional convention (political meeting)
Spanish transition to democracy
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Juan Carlos I dari Spanyol
- Legislatif
- Uni Demokrat Internasional
- Constituent Cortes
- Constituent Cortes of 1820
- First Spanish Republic
- Spanish transition to democracy
- Constituent assembly
- Spanish Civil War
- United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
- 1977 Spanish general election
- Santiago Casares Quiroga
- Emilio Castelar
