Cortes of Cádiz

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constituent assembly national assembly parliament

The Cortes of Cádiz was the Spanish national assembly convened during the Peninsular War that drafted the liberal 1812 Constitution, a landmark in Spanish and Latin American constitutional history.

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	constituent assembly → national assembly → parliament →
aim	to define national sovereignty → to establish a constitutional monarchy → to limit royal absolutism →
alsoKnownAs	Cortes Generales y Extraordinarias → Extraordinary General Cortes →
appliesToJurisdiction	Philippines → Spain → Spanish America →
convenedBy	Supreme Central Junta →
convenedDuring	Peninsular War →
country	Spain →
dissolutionEvent	restoration of absolutism in 1814 →
dissolvedBy	Ferdinand VII of Spain NERFINISHED →
doctrine	national sovereignty → recognition of individual rights → separation of powers →
endTime	1814 →
followedBy	Ordinary Cortes of 1813–1814 →
hasPart	deputies from Spanish America → deputies from overseas territories → deputies from peninsular Spain →
historicalPeriod	Spanish Enlightenment → Spanish War of Independence →
ideology	constitutionalism → liberalism →
influenced	Latin American independence movements → constitutionalism in Latin America →
language	Spanish →
legislativeBodyOf	Spanish Monarchy →
legislativeProcess	unicameral →
locatedIn	Andalusia NERFINISHED → Cádiz NERFINISHED → Kingdom of Spain →
precededBy	traditional estate-based Cortes of Castile →
product	Spanish Constitution of 1812 →
religion	Roman Catholicism as state religion (under 1812 Constitution) →
significantEvent	drafting of the Spanish Constitution of 1812 →
significantPerson	Agustín Argüelles → Antonio de Capmany → Diego Muñoz-Torrero → Felix Varela NERFINISHED → Francisco Martínez de la Rosa → Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos → José María Calatrava →
significantWork	Abolition of the Inquisition (1813) → Decree abolishing feudal privileges → Decree on freedom of the press (1810) →
startTime	1810 →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Congress of Deputies → Cortes Generales →	historicalPrecursor
Cádiz Constitution of 1812 →	legislativeBody
Cádiz Constitution of 1812 →	promulgatedBy
Mexican Congress →	replaces