Reivindicar el pasado para transformar el presente y legitimar la revolución constitucional: Historicismo y diputados catalanes en las Cortes de Cádiz

Abstract

During the constituent from Cadiz process the constitutional medieval tradition was raised in an extraordinary resource to legitimize the absolutist immobility or, on the contrary, to validate the legislative task of liberal sign, since the constitutional culture of 1812 was, besides catholic, deeply historicist. Largely because the continuous appeals of the leading Catalan deputies —indeed, Capmany, Aner, Espiga, Dou and Creus were the only ones to respect a meaningful way demonstrated— to the history of the Crown of Aragon, to the former constitution of the Spanish monarchy and to the fundamental Castilian laws there were fitting both the servile offers and the reformists.