Acerca del gobierno y administración territorial en el régimen constitucional gaditano

Authors

  • JAVIER PÉREZ NÚÑEZ

Keywords:

Liberal State, liberal revolution, local administration, 1812 Constitution, trienio liberal.

Abstract

Reflections about the uniform and centralized nation State, established by the Parliament of Cadiz and the difficulties of its implementation in local government as a consequence of the difference in importance it awards the municipality (town) and the province. Considering the municipality/town as a natural unit of coexistence leads to the recognition of a limited self-rule, governed by a town council as a fully elected body. However, considering the province as no more than a simple regional-scale State leads to a mixed formation of the regional delegate government and advisory bodies for the government delegate. In the liberal heyday (1820-23), the moderate liberal tendency, more centralising in nature, required the municipalities to be placed on a par with the provinces, whereas the radical tendency, with its more decentralising focus, ended up establishing the opposite.

Published

2009-06-16

Issue

Section

ARTICLES