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Polo y servicio was the forced labor system without compensation [1] imposed upon the local population in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period. [2] In concept, it was similar to Repartimiento, a forced labor system used in the Spanish America. [3] The word polo refers to community work, and the laborer was called polista. [4]
Drawing of a battle in the Spanish conquest of El Salvador, 1524. The Spanish Requirement of 1513 (Requerimiento) was a declaration by the Spanish monarchy, written by the Council of Castile jurist Juan López de Palacios Rubios, of Castile's divinely ordained right to take possession of the territories of the New World and to subjugate, exploit and, when necessary, to fight the native ...
In history, an Alguacil is a sheriff of a Spanish municipality who acted as the executive officer of the courses, and is considered to be the equivalent of a modern bailiff. [6] An Alguacil will execute the decisions of an alcalde , or a local judge, and will receive a portion of the judgments he executes.
A mandate is desirable for political parties, as it gives them leeway in policy implementation. [1] A party or candidate may claim to have a mandate, but it only confers a political advantage if this claim is widely accepted. [5] Non-electoral governments, such as dictatorships and monarchies, may also claim to have a popular mandate to rule. [6]
The Spanish Constitution is one of the few Bill of Rights that has legal provisions for social rights, including the definition of Spain itself as a "Social and Democratic State, subject to the rule of law" (Spanish: Estado social y democrático de derecho) in its preliminary title. However, those rights are not at the same level of protection ...
Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election.As of January 2023, 21 countries have compulsory voting laws. [1]
The Spanish Ombudsman or Defender of the People (Spanish: Defensor del Pueblo) is the ombudsman of the Cortes Generales responsible for defending the fundamental rights and public liberties of citizens by supervising the activity of public administrations. The ombudsman is created by the Constitution and regulated by an Organic Law of 1981.
With the New Laws of 1542, the repartimiento was instated to substitute the encomienda system that had come to be seen as abusive and promoting of unethical behavior. The Spanish Crown aimed to remove control of the indigenous population, now considered subjects of the Crown, from the hands of the encomenderos, who had become a politically influential and wealthy class, with the shift away ...