The monarchy and its legal and political meanings in the Revista de Estudios Políticos (1941-1947)

Authors

  • Jordi Cerdà Serrano Universitat Pompeu Fabra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rep.197.07

Abstract

This paper tries to unravel the legal and political meanings of the monarchy, in the broadest sense of the term, through the articles published in the Revista de Estudios Políticos (Journal of Political Studies) between 1941 and 1947. At the same time, it also tries to value how inspiring were these meanings to the monarchy established by the Law of Succession to the Headship of the State in 1947. To do this, this paper analyses the abovementioned articles which dealt with the monarchy (as a political category, institution, historicist legitimacy narrative and even symbolic evocation) considering the Journal as an intellectual debate arena. From this research four legal and political meanings have resulted: the foundational monarchy (the monarchy as the foundation of the National State), the historical one (the monarchy as the historical synthesis of the Spanish nation’s constituting notes, meaning unity and Catholicism), the traditional one (the monarchy as a political system based on tradition, corporatism and Catholicism) and the liberal one (the monarchy typical of doctrinaire liberalism). While historical and traditional monarchies’ ideas and topics seem to have inspired the Law of Succession’s monarchy, it cannot be said the same to the foundational and liberal monarchies.

Published

2022-10-10

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