The Crown and the “Cortes Generales”: Forty Years of Parliamentary Monarchy

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Vicente Moret Millás

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The Spanish monarchy constitutes an essential part of our constitutional architecture. Within the framework of relations between constitutional bodies, the King who is head of State, carries out functions derived from the activity of Cortes Generales and others that must be performed before them. After 40 years of democracy it is time to review these relations between bodies whose balance is positive in contributing to institutional stability. Both monarchs have been able to embody the unity and permanence of Spain, as well as to arbitrate the normal functioning of the institutions even in the most challenging situations, all with a total respect for the duty of political neutrality imposed by the Constitution.

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Monarchy, Head of State, Spanish Parliament, law signing, law enactment, electoral call, Parliament dissolution, oath, proclamation

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The Crown and the “Cortes Generales”: Forty Years of Parliamentary Monarchy. (2018). Journal of the Cortes Generales, 103, 77-96. https://doi.org/10.33426/rcg/2018/103/99

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Vicente Moret Millás, Cortes Generales

Parliamentary Counsel.

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