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Constitution 1931

1936-1939 Civil War

Constitution 1978

1996: PP Government: Aznar

2004: PSOE Government: Zapatero

1975-1982: Transition

Goverments: Arias Navarro, Adolfo Suarez, Felipe Gonzalez

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Characteristics• Form of state: Monarchy

• Bicameral parliament with semielective lower house

• Not recognized by the Spanish patriots during the war. Most of it´s contents were to be enacted through the 1810s, so it did not actually work.

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Characteristics• Form of state: Monarchy.

• Elected Parliament.

• The crown was granted wide-ranging veto powers, which Ferdinand VII used to prevent the liberal governments from functioning.

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Characteristics• Form of state: Monarchy.

• Repeal: Superseded.

• Partially suspended by Regent Baldomero Espartero to rule by decree between 1840 and 1843

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Characteristics• Form of state: Monarchy.

• Parliament efected by censitary suffrage

• Repeal: Queen Isabella II and her Government overthrown in the Glorious Revolution of 1868.

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Characteristics• Form of state: Monarchy.

• Parliament elected by universal male suffrage.

• Republic declared by the Cortes after resignment of King Amadeo I. Go back

Characteristics• Form of state: Monarchy• Parliament elected first by censitary, then universal male

suffrage from the 1890s.• While theoretically democratic, elections were routinely

rigged by the governing party, and in practice power was shared by two alternating parties. During Primo de Rivera´s dictatorship many of it´s articles were suspended in ade facto dictatorship.

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Characteristics• Form of state: Semi-federal

Republic.• Unicameral parliament, first

with universal male suffrage, from the 1933.

• During the civil war (1936-1939) it was abolished by the Nationalists and widely disregarded in the Repulican zone.

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• Form of state: Monarchy

• Parliamentar y democracy with bicameral, elective parliament.

• First in Spanish constitucional history not to grant any emergency power to the Head of State

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