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Brief Considerations Regarding the Structure of the Spanish Senate and the Boundary Between Federal Covenant and Autonomous State

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The Ways of Federalism in Western Countries and the Horizons of Territorial Autonomy in Spain

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Over 30 years after the Spanish Constitution was approved in 1978, the Estado autonómico or “autonomic State” for which it provides has evolved in a series of phases coinciding with different legislatures of the Spanish parliament, culminating in the configuration of a new model of the State. The key players in this process have been the political parties and the Spanish Constitutional Court. However, this new model as outlined in the proposals of the Catalan, Basque, and Galician nationalists and, in particular, as framed in recent reforms of certain statutes of autonomy, is wholly incompatible with the Constitution, which has led to calls for a definitive solution in the form of a pact to proceed openly with constitutional reform or to return powers to Spain’s central government.

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This contribution has been developed under the research project DER 2009-10375/JURI “Constitución y globalización: transformaciones del Estado constitucional y constitucionalización de espacios supranacionales”.

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Roque, E.GC. (2013). Brief Considerations Regarding the Structure of the Spanish Senate and the Boundary Between Federal Covenant and Autonomous State. In: López - Basaguren, A., Escajedo San Epifanio, L. (eds) The Ways of Federalism in Western Countries and the Horizons of Territorial Autonomy in Spain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27717-7_46

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