Federalism, Regionalism, Nationalism: The Reinstatement of the Generalitat and the Catalan Statute during the Second Republic
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Abstract
The current State model, designed in Part 8 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, is largely based on the political and institutional traditions that had emerged decades earlier. A cursory reading of the Statutes of Autonomy presently in force, which not only contain semantic variations but differences of content, sheds light on how they are regarded by the autonomous communities of Spain, in terms of their relationship with the State. This text examines two aspects in particular: the salient characteristics of the reinstatement of the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1931, in the light of the political and legal phenomena that had emerged in the 19th century in connection with the federalist, republican and regionalist projects; and the legal and institutional framework adopted in 1932 in the form of a Statute of Autonomy.