Constitution of Spain

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Spain's first Constitution was passed in 1812. A complete list of the Spanish different constitutions follows.

• Spanish Constitution of 1812 (nicknamed "La Pepa" because it was approved in St. Joseph's day, whose name is often aliased as "Pepe" in Spanish)
• Spanish Constitution of 1837
• Spanish Constitution of 1845
• Spanish Constitution of 1869
• Spanish Constitution of 1873 (mere project)
• Spanish Constitution of 1876 (Bourbonic restoration)
• Spanish Constitution of 1931 (2nd Republic)
• Spanish Constitution of 1978 (Current)

During Franco's dictatorship, there were many attemps to create stable institutions that did not (at least directly) emanate from the dictator as they did in the post-war period. The Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom (Spanish Leyes Fundamentales del Reino) were a constitution in parts enacted through nearly 20 years starting in the 1950s. They established the very institutions that would later, under King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, commit "constitutional suicide" and pass the Political Reform Act, starting the Spanish transition to democracy. Most of those Laws theoretically provided for a quite free state, much in the fashion the Soviet constitutions granted many freedoms, but ultimately the power of the Caudillo was supreme.

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• Text of all Spanish Constitutions since 1808 (in Spanish)