The First Spanish and Portuguese Constitutionalism (A Comparative Approach)

Authors

  • Joaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna Universidad de Oviedo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i13.326

Keywords:

Cadiz Constitution, Portuguese Constitution of 1822, comparative constitutional history, Portugal, Spain

Abstract

This essay tries to show the resemblances, differences and influences between the facts, ideas and constitutional articles of the first Spanish and Portuguese constitutionalism. I study the constitutional model both of the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and the Portuguese Constitution of 1822. These Constitutions used the political philosophy of the French Revolution as a model. Using it, the “doceañistas” Spanish liberals, and the “vintistas” Portuguese liberals tried to build a Assambleary Monarchy close to that of the French constitutionalism between 1789 and 1792. In such Monarchy there would be a unicameral Parliament, which would be elected through a wide suffrage. The Legislature would also be the main department of the brand new State, and it would be superior to the King, who was absent both in Spain between 1808 and 1814, and in Portugal, between 1807 and 1821.

 

Fecha en envío / Submission Date: 17/04/2012

Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance Date: 10/05/2012

Author Biography

Joaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Universidad de Oviedo

Joaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna es Catedrático de Derecho Constitucional de la Universidad de Oviedo y director del Seminario de Historia Constitucional “Martínez Marina”, que edita  “Historia Constitucional” y promueve la editorial digital In Itinere. Miembro del Consejo Editorial del Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC), en donde dirige la colección “Clásicos Políticos”, es también codirector de “Fundamentos”. Forma parte del Consejo científico o asesor de varias revistas españolas e italianas. Dentro de sus ciento setenta y cinco publicaciones, algunas traducidas a varias lenguas, destacan sus libros: “Sistema de Gobierno y Partidos Políticos. De Locke a Park (CEPC, 2002, traducido al italiano en 2007), “El Conde de Toreno (1786-1843). Biografía de un Liberal” (Marcial Pons, 2005), “Asturianos en la política española” (KRK, 2006), “Política y Constitución en España. 1808-1978” (CEPC, 2007), “La Constitución de 1876” (Iustel,  2009) y “La Teoría del Estado en las Cortes de Cádiz” (2ª edición, CEPC, 2011). Actualmente dirige la colección “Leyes Políticas Españolas. 1808-1978” y es autor del primero de sus cinco volúmenes: “Constituciones y Leyes Fundamentales” (Iustel, 2012). A finales de 2012 publicará “La monarquía doceañista. 1808-1837. Avatares, encomios y dicterios de una extraña forma de gobierno” (Marcial Pons).

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Issue

No. 13 (2012): Historia Constitucional N. 13 (2012)

Section

The Impact of the Constitution of Cadiz in Europe

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