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In the News (Mon 28 May 12)

  
  Spain
In the last two decades of the century, with the ending of Cadiz's royally granted monopoly, trade experienced an extraordinary growth (from a relatively low base) which even witnessed the initial steps of an industrialisation of the textile industry in Catalonia.
Despite a very low participation (42%), the final result was very strongly in affirmation of the constitution, making Spain the first country to approve the constitution via referendum (Hungary, Lithuania and Slovenia approved it before Spain, but they did not hold referenda).
The Spanish Constitution of 1978, in its second article, recognizes historic entities ("nationalities," a carefully chosen word in order to avoid "nations") and regions, inside the unity of the Spanish nation.
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 Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
In the last two decades of the century, with the ending of Cadiz's royally granted monopoly, trade experienced an extraordinary growth (from a relatively low base) which even witnessed the initial steps of an industrialization of the textile industry in Catalonia.
In 1812, the Liberal Cortes of Cadiz redacted a Constitution, bringing to the country a new form of government, and one by which future monarchs would have to rule, more or less willingly.
Spain is a constitutional monarchy, with a hereditary monarch and a bicameral parliament, the Cortes Generales.
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 Naive Spanish Judeophobia - Gustavo D. Perednik
In 1812 the assembly proclaimed a constitution that came to be the "sacred codex" of liberalism, and served during the nineteenth century as a model for the liberal constitutions of Latin American nations.
The Cadiz constitution gave Spain a limited monarchy and a single-chamber parliament, curbed the power of the nobility and the Catholic Church, suppressed the Spanish Inquisition, and expanded protection of individual rights.
The Cadiz constitution, a victory of liberalism, was promptly repealed by Ferdinand VII when he returned to Spain as king, following Napoleon's defeat.
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