LEADER 03306nam 2200373z 450 001 9910640393203321 005 20231214133305.0 010 $a1-00-331797-9 010 $a1-003-31797-9 035 $a(CKB)5850000000316915 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/96160 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7245431 035 $a(EXLCZ)995850000000316915 100 $a20202301d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDemocracy and sovereignty in Spain $econceptual innovation in the Spanish Constituent Assembly of 1931 /$fFrancisco J. Bellido 210 1$aNew York :$cTaylor & Francis,$d2023 215 $a1 electronic resource (157 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain 311 0 $a1-03-233055-4 327 $aIntroduction: Exploring political concepts and arguments in the Parliamentary Constitutional debate of 1931-- Chapter 1: Debating the meanings of a democratic state (August to October 1931) -- Chapter 2: Reforms towards a social state (September to October 1931) -- Chapter 3: Legal and political controversies around the conceptualization of freedom of conscience (September to November 1931) -- Chapter 4: Property rights and the limits to state action (September to October 1931) -- Chapter 5: Parliament and the President of the Republic (October to November 1931) -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- Bibliography. 330 $aThis book delves into the conceptual changes produced by the Spanish constitutional debate held between 27 August and 9 December 1931. Taking place at the beginning of Spain?s Second Republic, those parliamentary deliberations brought about significant novelties in the political vocabulary. Concepts such as democracy, sovereignty, reform, revolution, and freedom, among others, were re-signified. This study investigates the conceptual contributions made by Spanish MPs in the course of the constitutional debate of 1931 by assuming, as a research approach, an interdisciplinary stance combining conceptual history, political theory, and parliamentary constitutional history. By doing so, it selects five determining issues: the pervasive discussion about two competing meanings of a democratic state; the rhetorical uses of reform and revolution; conceptual controversies about religious freedom; the disputed idea of property rights; and the functions of parliament and the president of the republic in a semi-presidential regime. The constitutional debate was largely inspired by interwar European constitutionalism which constituent representatives used to update the Spanish constitutional tradition. With that goal in mind, this book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students and scholars working in the fields of conceptual history, political philosophy, parliamentary history, European political history, and European constitutionalism. 607 $aSpain$xPolitics and government$y1931-1939 607 $aSpain$xHistory$yRepublic, 1931-1939 676 $a946.081 700 $aBellido$b Francisco J.$f1992-$01371510 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910640393203321 996 $aDemocracy and sovereignty in Spain$93400714 997 $aUNINA