Leyes fundamentales y Constitución de la Monarquía española de 1812

Abstract

Part of these fundamental laws of the Ancien Regime and the Spanish Monarchy’s Constitution of 1812 is a plural conception of politics and history. When the exceptional Cortes Generales were held in 1812, only the Basque provinces and the Kingdom of Navarre had their own historical constitutions. However, the democratic liberals and moderate followers of Jovellanos united in the idea of suppressing the provincial constitutions in the belief that political and legal unification were appropriate in the Age of Enlightenment. At that time, during the patriotic Peninsular War, the concept of a Spanish constitution was created and this, beyond its immediate political meaning, defined a universal state in the imperial style. In opposition to the historical roots of the peoples of Spain, this concept of a nation was set up and, since then, has been Spain’s political solution or problem.