CADIZ CORTES Flashcards
context of their creation
1810
- Junta Central calls for an assembly of Provincial comitees in Cadiz
- Get BACK to the CORTES = medieval institutions = new :no features of o.o
- Provincial representatives : chosen by MALE 25+
- Each representative = 1 vote (no more estamental structure)
- NEW CORTES RULE = in the name OF NATION xxx KING (tho ferni was still acknowledged as legitimate sovereign)
CONTENTS OF CORTES
- context
- composition
- legislative works
- la pepa // const 1812
ELECTED DEPUTIES
elected deputies included:
- clergymen 1/3
- lawyers
- military men
- intellectuals
- civil servants
composition of cortes :
- elected deputies (5)
- main tendencies (3)
main tendencies of the deputies
- Jovellanistas//Enlightened
- Serviles//Absolutists
- Liberals
JOVELLANISTAS / ENLIGHTENED
- favour an intermediate regime between ABSOLUTISM + LIBERALISM
- no noticable impact
ABSOLUTISTS/SERVILES
- defender of Old Order
- mostly : clergymen + nobles
LIBERALS
- defend = PARLIAMENT that holds:
- national soveregnity // constitution
- majority
war prevented conservative deputies from attending = local repr subst
CADIZ LIBERAL CITY = A LOT OF LOCALS = LIBERALS
Legislative work of cortes
- legislative work = radical rupture/ ruling principles of the time
- placed Spain in European Liberalist countries
- approved certain decrees
decrees passed by the cortes
- equality under law
- equality spaniards = americans (answer indep mov. colonies)
- Abolition of guilds (economic freedom) /Inquisition/Seignural Jurisdictions
- printing freedom
MOST COMPLETE LEGISLATIVE WORK = CONSTITUTION 1812
constitution = new legal/political frame for the nation
LA PEPA
19 March 1812
* 1st constitution
* Approved by the Cadiz Cortes
* long document ruling every detail of
1. political organisation
2. citizens rights
* following FR/USA constitutions as models
LA PEPA
MAIN PRINCIPLES
- **National Sovereignty **
- Government form: constitutional monarchy
- Unified state, colonies included, over the historical rights of each region
- Separation of powers:
- Equality under the law and fiscal equality of every citizen (white men).
- Broad recognition of individual rights and freedoms.
- “Universal” MANHOOD ACTIVE suffrage.
- Confessional State
NATIONAL SOVEREGNITY
- National Sovereignty represented by the Cortes
- instead of the Crown’s
GOVERNMENT FORM
- constitutional monarchy
- Ferni not absolut monarch
- tho Ferni = king determined constitutionally
UNIFIED STATE
- Spain = 1 STATE = spain + colonies
- end of REGIONAL historical rights = abolishion FUEROS
SEPARATION OF POWERS
- legislative = cortes (1 chamber) tho king can revoque laws
- executive = crown
- judiciary = indep judges / courts
CITIZENS EQUALITY
- fiscally = tax payment
- under the law
RECOGNITION
broadly of freedoms / rights
UNIVERSAL MANHOOD ACTIVE SUFFRAGE
- all adult white men can vote
- not all can be elected = right exclusive for property owners
Confessional state
Catholicism = only / official religion
Relevance & impact
- never implemented = war
- radical for its time
- 1st constitution = LIBERAL ( tho a little conservative hence, confessional nature )
- Cadiz Const = symbol of freedon =model for other const
- Spain unprepared for liberalism // capitalism
- ABOLISHION : 1814 re-establishment of absolutism Fer 7 (lib triennium)
spain unprepared for lliberalism
- liberalism triumph** Fr/Ing = industrial**
- Spain not indistrialized enough
- Liberalism only triumphed = EXCEPTIONAL war circumnstances
