Articulating nation and faith(s): Constitutional Regulation for Religious Fact in Spain During the Second Liberal State (1845-1869)

Abstract

This papers aims to explain and analyse the main events from three different moments of the second third of the nineteenth century Spain about the link between the religious and the constitutional-civil facts: 1) Moderados’ control in the 1840s, expressed in 1845 Constitution and the Concordat of 1851; 2) the failed constitutional progressive project from 1855-1856; and 3) the paradigm change born with the 1869 Constitution, also progressive and more radical in its principles. All of them faced the religious issue in different ways, depending on each moment’s political dominion and even clergy’s attitude in Spain and in Rome, which could be expansive of retreating. In that temporal framework of more than 30 years changes and continuities in Spanish religious politics can be contrasted through several legal texts, parliamentary debates and publications.

Enviado el (Submission Date): 25/09/2022
Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 22/11/2022