Supreme Central Junta
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The Supreme Central and Governing Junta of Spain and the Indies was the Spanish organ that assumed the executive and legislative powers of the Kingdom of Spain during the Peninsular War and the Napole
The Junta of the Philippines by Francisco Goya
Cortes of Cádiz
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The Cortes of Cádiz were the result of the Spanish liberal revolution that transformed the Bourbon Kingdom of Spain and the Indies from an absolutist state into a national state, through the formation
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…the absent king and royal government, and it succeeded in calling for representatives from local provinces and the overseas possessions to meet in an "Extraordinary and General Cortes of the Spanish Nation," so called because it would be both the single legislative body for the whole empire and the body which would write a constitution for it. As agreed…
Monument in Cádiz to the Cortes and the 1812 constitution
Oath of the Cortes of Cádiz in the main parish church of San Fernando, the work of José Casado del Alisal. Presented at the Congress of Deputies in Madrid
Real Teatro de las Cortes, where the deputies who drafted the Spanish Constitution of 1812 met between 24 September 1810, and 20 February 1811.
The declaration of the Constitution of 1812, the work of Salvador Viniegra (Museo de las Cortes de Cádiz)