The art of writing the history of the “Constitutional Revolution”

Abstract

This paper aims to contribute to the explanation of the concepts of Constitutional Law and constitutionalism from an analysis focused on their historical interpretation and Comparative Law. For this, a review is made of the “constitutional genealogy”, that is, of the different channels of influence
of the endless number of Constitutions that were promulgated in Europe from 1791 to 1931 and that took the American and French revolutions as a starting point, but also the English although it manifested itself before and in another way. This analysis offers conclusions that will allow us to begin to build the
scientific category of “Constitutional Revolution” that goes beyond the mere succession of political revolts or revolutionary attempts with a constitutional sense disconnected from each other. On the contrary, everything that has happened since the mid-eighteenth century allows us to speak of a continuum
in the historical evolution, which illuminated a true political-constitutional change, in addition to the social and institutional one.