Acotaciones sobre el término "nación".

Authors

  • LORENZO MARTÍN-RETORTILLO BAQUER

Keywords:

nation, Constitution, Autonomy Charters.

Abstract

The debate about the reform of the charters establishing how power is devolved to the regions in Spain have brought the term «nation» to the forefront of current issues. What does it mean? If one observes the great impact of the «nationality principle» recognised early on by Mancini, one realises that the most obvious immediate results of that concept go in a direction of unification and integration of what had appeared to be separate. The unity of Italy and the unity of Germany would thus be the most relevant consequences. But the word «nation» is open to more than one interpretation. It can thus be enlightening to compare and contrast its different meanings. To this end, it is enormously useful to look at literary classics.

Published

2008-04-09