THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION OF THE SPANISH CONSTITUTIONALISM

In this essay the complex and varied development of Spanish Constitutionalism is examined (its texts, institutions and doctrines) with the aim to place it in its compared context, mainly the European. Among other considerations the decisive influence of revolutionary France in the Bayonne constitution and in that of Cadiz, the welcoming of English and Post-Napoleonic French Constitutionalism during the Liberal Triennium and the exiles that existed under the absolutism of Fernando VII, the influence of Great Britain and to a lesser extent Belgium and the U.S.A. in Constitutional Spain from 1834 to 1923, the interwar traces of constitutionalism during the Second Republic and finally the European sources, especially German and Italian of the current constitution of 1978 are studied. The international impact of the Cadiz constitution should not be overlooked nor that of the 1931 Constitution.