The origins of the parliamentary dissolution in the Constitutional Spain: the period of María Cristina Regency and the obstacles to the growing of a Parliamentary System in the Monarchy of Isabel II

Authors

  • Juan Ignacio Marcuello Benedicto Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i2.120

Keywords:

parliament dissolution, isabel ii, parlamentary system

Abstract

One of the main features in the constitutional system during the Monarchy of Isabel II, was to give the Queen the power to dissolve the Parliament; a power that had been denied to Kings in the Constitution of Cadix. This new power was created in a very particular political and constitutional context, which should be had into account to understand its huge complexity and the new system of government that it introduced: a Monarchy limited by a Constitution, which had some important internal contradictions.

Submission date: 18/01/2001
Fecha aceptación: 22/03/2001

Author Biography

Juan Ignacio Marcuello Benedicto, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Doctor en Filosofía y Letras (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). Doctor vinculado al Centro de Estudios Históricos del C.S.I.C. Profesor Titular de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Es autor de diversos estudios en el campo de la Historia Político-Constitucional de la España Liberal, entre los que cabe destacar su libro, La práctica parlamentaria en el Reinado de Isabel II (Congreso de los Diputados, Madrid, 1986).

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No. 2 (2001): Historia Constitucional N. 2 (2001)

Section

Spain

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