Democracy and Sovereignty in Spain

Conceptual Innovation in the Spanish Constituent Assembly of 1931
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-33214-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 231 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain

This book delves into the conceptual changes produced by the Spanish constitutional debate held between 27 August and 9 December 1931. Taking place at the beginning of Spain’s Second Republic, those parliamentary deliberations brought about significant novelties in the political vocabulary. Concepts such as democracy, sovereignty, reform, revolution, and freedom, among others, were re-signified.

This study investigates the conceptual contributions made by Spanish MPs in the course of the constitutional debate of 1931 by assuming, as a research approach, an interdisciplinary stance combining conceptual history, political theory, and parliamentary constitutional history. By doing so, it selects five determining issues: the pervasive discussion about two competing meanings of a democratic state; the rhetorical uses of reform and revolution; conceptual controversies about religious freedom; the disputed idea of property rights; and the functions of parliament and the president of the republic in a semi-presidential regime. The constitutional debate was largely inspired by interwar European constitutionalism which constituent representatives used to update the Spanish constitutional tradition.

With that goal in mind, this book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students and scholars working in the fields of conceptual history, political philosophy, parliamentary history, European political history, and European constitutionalism.

Licence line: The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bellido, Francisco J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Chapter 1: Debating the Meanings of a Democratic State (August to October 1931) / Chapter 2: Reforms towards a Social State (September to October 1931) / Chapter 3: Legal and Political Controversies around the Conceptualization of Freedom of Conscience (September to November 1931) / Chapter 4: Property Rights and the Limits to State Action (September to October 1931) / Chapter 5: Parliament and the President of the Republic (October to November 1931) / Chapter 6: Conclusions / Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Francisco J. Bellido PhD in social sciences (2020, Jyväskylä) and in philosophy (2022, Málaga), is a postdoctoral researcher currently based at the University of Málaga working on political philosophy, parliamentarism, constitutionalism, and conceptual history.