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Historical Determinism in the Constitution of the United States and the Spanish Constitution of 1812
Author(s) -
José Antonio Gurpegui
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
complutense journal of english studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2386-3935
pISSN - 2386-6624
DOI - 10.5209/cjes.62380
Subject(s) - constitution , federalist , constitutionalism , politics , law , political science , democracy
The Constitution of the United States has not been a document specially  referred to, nor considered, by Spanish academics who have studied the Constitution of 1812. Even the constitutionalists gathered in Cádiz fled from anything that could evoke a republican and federalist constitution being their purpose radically different. In a general way, it has been the French Constitution of 1791, the reference text “par excellece”. But, beyond the liberal principles that Americans and most of the Spaniards embraced, there were some historical coincidences in the United States and Spain which conditioned in a similar way the final result of both political documents.

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