People in the Spanish constitutional thought (1808-1845)

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Published 21-02-2012
Joaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna

Abstract

I examine in this article the concept of people —or perhaps more exactly the different meanings of this word— by the spanish constitutional thought during the first half of the nineteenth century. First, I focus my analysis in the liberals of the Cortes of Cadiz, then in the «progresistas» and «moderados» during the thirties and forties, and finally in the left wing «progresistas» of the Cortes of 1837, whose thesis announced the thesis of the posterior democratic liberalism. For that aim I based my analysis into the debates that were developed, in and out of Parliament, on sovereignty, representation and, mainly suffrage, in which the references to the people (and to other similar concepts, as nation, citizenship and democracy) are constants, but not univocs at all.

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II. Pueblo