| LC control no. | n 83023759 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Spain. Cortes Generales |
| See also | Spain. Cortes |
| Found in | Its Congreso de los Diputados. Boletín oficial ... Series A. Proyectos de ley, 31 de marzo de 1982: t.p. (Cortes Generales; Madrid) Constitución española, 1977: p. 36 (Título IV: Las Cortes); 1978: p. 167 (Título III: de Las Cortes Generales) Senado de España website, 6 December 2012: diccionario parlamentario (Cortes Generales is the official name of the Spanish Parliament) constitutional history page (The modern Parliament of Spain was born in the early 19th century, when Parliament (known as Las Cortes) was summoned and passed the first constitution of Spain, in Cádiz, in 1812; the Cortes consisted of a single house; this Parliament remained until 1814, when Ferdinand VII re-established the absolute monarchy; he re-opened the Cortes during the constitutional triennium of 1820 and 1823, when he re-adopted the 1812 Constitution. The Royal Statute of 1834 established a bicameral Parliamentary system, the Estamento de Próceres and Estamento de Procuradores (the Constitution of 1837 changed these names to Senado and Congreso de los Diputados respectively). The bicameral Parliamentary system remained in place until 1923 when the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera began. The second Republic, proclaimed in 1931, returned to the unicameral Parliamentary model (without the Senate). After the Civil War (1936-1939) Franco led a dictatorship; there was not a true Parliament as the organic 'Cortes' responded to an authoritarian corporate model. With the Political Reform Act of 1977 (which allowed for the transition from Francoism to a democratic system) the bicameral Parliamentary system returned; the two Houses passed the new Constitution of 27 December 1978; the Spanish Parliament established in this Constitution received the name of "Cortes Generales") |
| Not found in | LC data base, 9-22-87 (hdg.: Spain. Cortes) |
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