Constituent Cortes
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The Constituent Cortes (
constituent assembly.[1]
In the 20th century, only one Constituent Cortes was officially opened (Cortes are "opened" in accordance with a mediaeval
royal proclamation), and that was the Republican Cortes in 1931. It drafted a new constitution but its work was overturned by the victory of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War
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The Cortes in 1977 enacted a new Spanish constitution which it had drafted. It was never officially considered "constituent", as the assembly chosen in the 1977 general elections was not mandated at the time to create a new constitution, but to rule under the constitution of the former dictatorship – the so-called Leyes Fundamentales (fundamental laws).
See also
- Convention Parliament
- Constitutional convention (political meeting)
- Spanish transition to democracy
References
- JSTOR 40395073.