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The Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy (Spanish: Constitución Política de la Monarquía Española), also known as the Constitution of Cádiz (Spanish: Constitución de Cádiz) and as La Pepa, was the first Constitution of Spain and one of the earliest codified constitutions in world history.
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See moreEnacted: 12 March 1812
Signed by: President of the Cortes of Cádiz, 174 …
Passed: 19 March 1812
Territorial extent: Spanish Empire
Until the Napoleonic invasion of Spain in 1808, Ferdinand VII ruled as an absolute monarch. Napoleon forced Ferdinand's abdication as well as the renunciation of his father Charles IV's rights, and then placed his brother
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See moreAs the principal aim of the new constitution was the prevention of arbitrary and corrupt royal rule, it provided for a limited monarchy
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See moreThe Constitution was signed in March 1812, but it was not promulgated immediately throughout the empire. In New Spain, Viceroy Francisco Venegas allowed the Constitution to be published on 19 September 1812. In Peru, the other major viceroyalty, Viceroy
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See moreAs Spaniards in the peninsula and overseas grappled with the new political reality, for them it created a crisis of legitimacy of rule. Many
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See moreWhen Ferdinand VII was restored in March 1814 by the Allied Powers, it is not clear whether he immediately made up his mind as to whether to accept or reject this new charter of Spanish
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See more• Anguita, where the act was signed to establish the first diputación provincial under the 1812 Constitution.
• Constitution of 1812 monument in St. Augustine, Florida. This...
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