Full Description
After the authoritarian regime of General Franco, the Constitution of 1978 established a new constitutional system in Spain which stands as a concrete political reality and as a compendium of European constitutional history of the end of the twentieth century.
After a brief historical introduction, the text deals critically, and with some comparative aspects, with the value system on which the Constitution is founded (the Social and Democratic State of Law), the relative sources of law, fundamental rights and their guarantees, the regulation of the constitutional organization of the State (Parliament, Government, Crown, Judiciary power and Constitutional Court) and the forms of territorial distribution of power, the problems raised by relations between the State and the Autonomous Communities, particularly with regard to their financing.
Contents
Historical Constitutional Premises; 1 Spain Is Established as a Social and Democratic State Subject to the Rule of Law (Art. 1.1); 2 Sources of Law. Legislative Procedure. International Treaties. Relations with the European Union; 3 The System of Fundamental Rights, Public Liberties and Duties; 4 The Guiding Principles of Social and Economic Policy; 5 Guarantees of Fundamental Rights and Liberties; 6 The Crown; 7 The Parliament. Organisation and Functions; 8 Government and Administration. Relations Between the Government and the Parliament; 9 The Judiciary; 10 Constitutional Jurisdiction; 11 Territorial Organisation. The Model of Regional State; 12 The Constitution and the Economic Model of Financing the Autonomous Communities; 13 Reform of the Constitution
