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TheConstituent Cortes (Spanish:Las Cortes Constituyentes) is the description of Spain's parliament, theCortes, when convened as aconstituent assembly.[1]
In the 20th century, only one Constituent Cortes was officially opened (Cortes are "opened" in accordance with a mediaevalroyal proclamation), and that was theRepublican Cortes in 1931. It drafted a newconstitution but its work was overturned by the victory of theNationalists in theSpanish Civil War.
The Cortes in 1977 enacted a newSpanish constitution which it had drafted. It was never officially considered "constituent", as the assembly chosen in the1977 general elections was not mandated at the time to create a new constitution, but to rule under the constitution of theformer dictatorship – the so-calledLeyes Fundamentales (fundamental laws).
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