3. • The democratic legal system is
the set of rules drawn up by
political power, which organize
coexistence in a democracy.
1. 1. Spanish legal
order
4. • There are no rights without duties and duties without
rights. Rights and responsibilities are mutually generated.
The rights of some are duties and responsibilities of
others and vice versa. When we acquire the right to
assume obligations, is when we contract an obligation.
1. 3. The legal system as a
system of rights and duties
5. • It is the highest ranking law; the entire legal base of a
democratic state of law are built on it.
1.4. What is a
Constitution?
7. • The merit of our Constitution
is that it represents a large
majority of citizens.
2.1. The greatest success of
Spanish Constitution (1978)
8. • Preamble:
• To guarantee democratic coexistence under a correct economic
and social order.
• To consolidate a Democratic State of Law to ensure that law is the
greatest expression of the popular will.
• To protect Human Rights, cultures, traditions, languages and
institutions of all the Spanish people.
• To promote the progress of culture and economy to ensure a
dignified quality of life.
• Establish an advanced democratic society.
• To collaborate in the strengthening of peaceful relationships and
effective cooperation among all people on Earth.
2.2. Preamble and Preliminary
Section of the Constitution
9. • Article I.
• Spain is constituted as a Social and Democratic State of Law,
which considers as superior values of its legal order
(ordenamiento jurídico), to be freedom, justice, equality and
political pluralism.
• National sovereignty belongs to the Spanish people. The powers
of State are emanated by them.
• The political form of the Spanish State is the Parliamentary
Monarchy.
10. • Article II.
• The Constitution is based on the indissoluble unity of the
Spanish Nation, the common and indivisible homeland of
the Spanish people, and recognizes and guarantees the right
to the autonomy of the nationalities and regions that
compose and the solidarity among them.
12. • According to the Constitution, nobody can be deprived of
his liberty except in accordance with law.
• Freedom must be compatible with equality, avoiding any
kind of discrimination.
• Solidarity is effective thanks to the contribution of all
citizens to public expenditure according to their economic
capacity, through a progressive and egalitarian tax
system. In addition, a public Social Security should
protect the weakest.
• Citizens have the right to participate in public issues,
directly or through representatives freely elected in
periodic elections by universal suffrage.
• Justice is the value that harmonizes all other values and
determines their application in specific situations.
13. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Constitution_of_19
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• http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Con
greso/Hist_Normas/Norm/const_espa_texto_ingles_0.pdf
• http://www.tribunalconstitucional.es/en/constitucion/Page
s/ConstitucionIngles.aspx
• http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/history/constituti
on.asp
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