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Davis, John. "The Spanish Constitution of 1812 and the Mediterranean Revolutions (1820–25)." Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 37.2 (2012): 7. Eastman, Scott, and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, eds. The rise of constitutional government in the Iberian Atlantic world: the impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812. University of ...
A revolutionary document, the Spanish Constitution of 1812 marked the initiation of the Spanish tradition of liberalism, and when Fernando VII was restored to the throne in 1814, he refused to recognize it. He dismissed the Cortes Generales on 4 May and ruled as an absolute monarch. These events foreshadowed the long conflict between liberals ...
Not recognized by the Spanish patriots during the war. Most of its contents were to be enacted through the 1810s, so it did not actually come into effect. However, it provided for representation from Spanish America and the Philippines. Constitution of 1812: 1812–1814 1820–1823 1836–1837 Constitutional monarchy elected parliament.
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The constitution was drafted by the Cortes of Cádiz at a time when Cádiz was one of the few free Spanish cities during the Peninsular War. The monument, designed by Modesto López Otero and sculpted by Aniceto Marinas , was commissioned by the Spanish government in 1912 to celebrate the centennial of the Constitution of 1812 as well as the ...
He was a member of the Cortes of Cádiz and was selected for the Constitutional commission, playing thus a key role in the drafting of the Constitution of 1812. Siding with the liberal faction of the Parliament, he promoted freedom of the press , free-market and physiocracy , the abolishment of torture , the prosecution of slave trade and the ...
Spain in the 19th century was a country in turmoil. Occupied by Napoleon from 1808 to 1814, a massively destructive "liberation war" ensued.Following the Spanish Constitution of 1812, Spain was divided between the 1812 constitution's liberal principles and the absolutism personified by the rule of Ferdinand VII, who repealed the 1812 Constitution for the first time in 1814, only to be forced ...
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