Naturaleza and citizenship in Modern Spain

From subject representation to the dawn of contemporary citizenship (17th-19th centuries)

Abstract

The Constitution of Cadiz of 1812 defines the profiles of the spanish
subject and spanish citizen, to ones a clearly modern citizen, to others,
a still immersed subject in the corporate world of the Ancient Regime.
Is still debated, therefore, if the gaditana constitution has the aspects of
the modern citizenship or if it drags the conditions of the former local
nature which tends to become universal in the Hispanic Empire. From the
proposed Great Memorial of the Conde-Duque de Olivares and the Nueva
Planta decrees of Felipe V, We intend to review the main questions which
appears crystallized in the Novísima Recopilación, then discussed in the
Cortes doceañistas. There the terms nature and citizenship played a central
role in the discussions, as well as later uses of corporate conceptions.