The Spanish Constitution of 1812, and the legislation passed by the Cádiz Cortes after it was set up in 1808, created a number of liberal political and commercial policies, which were welcomed in Cuba but also curtailed a number of previous political and commercial liberties.

This Nicaragua-assisted invasion by Honduran exiles strongly displeased the United States government, which concluded that Zelaya wanted to dominate the entire Central American region, and the government dispatched marines to Puerto Cortes to protect the banana trade ; US naval units were also sent to Honduras and were able to successfully defend Bonilla's last defense position at Amapala in the Gulfo de Fonseca.

Some Mexicans also credit her with having brought Christianity to the " New World " from Europe, and for having influenced Cortes to be more humane than he would otherwise have been.

He also expresses the State's assent to entering into international commitments through treaties ; and he declares war or makes peace, following the authorization of the Cortes Generales.

The qualifier " General ", added in the 1978 constitution, implies the nation-wide character of the Parliament, since the legislatures of some autonomous communities are also labeled " Cortes ").

The choice of the grand-master of Aviz ratified the old alliance between the Crown and the military orders ; his election by the whole Cortes not only ratified the alliance between the Crown and the commons, but also included the nobles and the Church.

He managed to overcome the resistance of the Aragonese Cortes and Catalan Corts also, and finally he was recognized as king of Aragon jointly with his mother.

But he also took advantage of the situation to abolish the 1822 Constitution and dismiss the Cortes.

Furthermore, the WIAC commissioned a commemorative work of art, created by Tim Cortes, and has also created a 2-year calendar in celebration of its Centennial.

His said Majesty King Alfonso XIII also engages, if, by the will of Divine Providence, the said Princess Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena should become his widow, to secure to her, from the date of his death, an annual grant of 250, 000 pesetas, unless and until she contracts a second marriage, both these grants having already been voted by the Cortes.

Isabella also sought various ways to diminish the influence of the Cortes Generales in Castile, though Ferdinand was too thoroughly Catalan to do anything of the sort with the equivalent systems in the Crown of Aragon.

He also was deputy at the Cortes this year, Government and Sanity councillor when Francesc Macià was President of the Generalitat of Catalonia as well as Public Services, Economy and Culture councillor during the Spanish Civil War.

Both his grandfather Charles and his mother, who ruled over Navarre from 1425 to 1441, had bequeathed this kingdom to Charles, whose right had also been recognized by the Cortes ; but when Blanche died in 1441 her husband John seized the kingdom to the exclusion of his son.

In part this arrangement was a strategy by the peninsular deputies to achieve equality in the number of American and peninsular deputies in the future Cortes, but it also served the interests of conservative Criollo representatives, who wished to keep political power within a limited group of people.

Cortes is also the visual inspiration for the character Vamp from the Metal Gear video game series.

He was also a member of the Cortes from 1916 to 1923, when they were finally dissolved by Primo de Rivera's dictatorship.

Templeton said that " Califia is a part of California history, and she also reinforces the fact that when Cortes named this place California, he had 300 black people with him.

Along with working as a police force and militia, they also collected taxes, acted as judges, and worked with the Cortes and corregidores on these and similar administrative problems.

Cortes, who was also a comedian and a musicals actress, parlayed her acting career into a singing one, recording various albums while still active as an actress.

Aside from the manufacturing and handicraft industries, the people of Cortes are also into agribusiness.

The Local Government Unit ( LGU ) of Cortes with Mayor Jasmin Balistoy in the lead is also developing eco-tourism.

The LGU are also eyeing some sites for future development such as the Bilibili Spring, Larga Vista, Municipal Hall and more in an effort to make the town of Cortes attractive to tourists.

Beginning also in 1893, the title of provincial executives was changed into Governador de Politico Militares with Don Jose Cortes y Dominguez as its first provincial executive with that title, followed by Don Justo Cumplido y Montero in 1896.

Commanders: Colonel Vicente Tosta Carrasco, Colonel Flavio Del Cid, Colonel Gregorio Ferrera and after this trigger military leave for the " Sultana of the West " with a good army who to be spotted, in an attempt to stop strengthening the guard of the town hall and prepare both the soldiers and citizens to fight that has no place until 16 August of that year, to defend the city are the commander of arms Attorney Jesus Maria Rodriguez, Colonel Alfonso Ferrari, General and Colonel Vicente Ayala, with 400 soldiers and after several hours of siege, the city was delivered and the revolutionary forces marched north to the city, en route to San Pedro Sula, Cortes also fall into their power.

In 1361, at the Cortes of Elvas, it was enacted that the privileges of the clergy should only be deemed valid insofar as they did not conflict with the royal prerogative.

The Cortes in 1977 enacted the new Spanish constitution.

The plan conducted by the Basque president Juan José Ibarretxe ( known as Ibarretxe Plan ) to reform the status of the Basque Country in the Spanish state was rejected by the Spanish Cortes, on the grounds ( among others ) that it amounted to an implicit reform of the Constitution.

The People's Party attempted to reject the admission into the Cortes of the 2005 reform of the Autonomy Statute of Catalonia on the grounds that it should be dealt with as a constitutional reform rather than a mere statute reform because it allegedly contradicts the spirit of the Constitution in many points, especially the Statute's alleged breaches of the " solidarity between regions " principle enshrined by the Constitution.

Former president Juan José Ibarretxe spearheaded a call for the reform of the Statute of Autonomy that governs the Basque Country Autonomous Community, through a proposal widely known as the Ibarretxe Plan which was rejected by the Cortes Generales.

These moderate proposals met with a hostile response from reactionary elements within the Cortes, including the conservative wing of the CEDA and the proposed reform was defeated.

Next, Suárez took it upon himself to reform the Cortes and to establish the legal framework for the elections.

After being pressured by the King and by Suàrez, the Cortes signed their own demise and approved the reform, which was held to test with a popular referendum.

From this moment, it was possible to begin the electoral process ( the second part of the Suárez program ), which would serve to elect the deputies of the Constituent Cortes, the body that was to be responsible for creating a democratic constitution.

This new law revoked most of the historical rights and privileges of the different kingdoms that formed the Spanish Crown, especially the Crown of Aragon, unifying them under the laws of Castile, where the Cortes Generales ( Spanish legislature ) had been more receptive to the royal wish.

According to the constitution, it is incumbent upon the King: to sanction and promulgate laws ; to summon and dissolve the Cortes Generales ( the Parliament ) and to call elections ; to call a referendum under the circumstances provided in the constitution ; to propose a candidate for prime minister, and to appoint or remove him from office, as well as other ministers ; to issue the decrees agreed upon by the Council of Ministers ; to confer civil and military positions, and to award honors and distinctions ; to be informed of the affairs of the State, presiding over the meetings of the Council of Ministers whenever opportune ; to exercise supreme command of the Spanish Armed Forces, to exercise the right to grant pardons, in accordance to the law ; and to exercise the High Patronage of the Royal Academies.

Due to the irregularity of assuming the royal title, when his mother, the legitimate queen, was alive, the negotiations with the Castilian Cortes in Valladolid ( 1518 ) proved difficult, and in the end Charles was accepted under the following conditions: he would learn to speak Castilian ; he would not appoint foreigners ; he was prohibited from taking precious metals from Castile ; and he would respect the rights of his mother, Queen Joanna.

The budget approved by the Cortes for 2010 was just under 7. 4 million euros, a budget only slightly larger than that spent on the Luxembourg monarchy.

* b. To summon and dissolve the Cortes Generales and to call for elections under the terms provided for in the Constitution.

: I shall relate how the new settlement was, during many troubled years, successfully defended against foreign and domestic enemies ; how, under that settlement, the authority of law and the security of property were found to be compatible with a liberty of discussion and of individual action never before known ; how, from the auspicious union of order and freedom, sprang a prosperity of which the annals of human affairs had furnished no example ; how our country, from a state of ignominious vassalage, rapidly rose to the place of umpire among European powers ; how her opulence and her martial glory grew together ; how, by wise and resolute good faith, was gradually established a public credit fruitful of marvels which to the statesmen of any former age would have seemed incredible ; how a gigantic commerce gave birth to a maritime power, compared with which every other maritime power, ancient or modern, sinks into insignificance ; how Scotland, after ages of enmity, was at length united to England, not merely by legal bonds, but by indissoluble ties of interest and affection ; how, in America, the British colonies rapidly became far mightier and wealthier than the realms which Cortes and Pizarro had added to the dominions of Charles the Fifth ; how in Asia, British adventurers founded an empire not less splendid and more durable than that of Alexander.

The Cortes ( Spanish parliament ) under the constitutional monarchy seemed to have no solution to Spain's unemployment, labor strikes, and poverty.

In 1519, the Spaniards under Hernan Cortes arrived in what is now Mexico.

The Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party under Felipe González achieved the largest number of votes and seats for the fourth consecutive time, though it lost its absolute majority in both chambers of the Cortes.

The areas of Upper Peru which remained under royalist control elected a representative to the Spanish Cortes, Mariano Rodríguez Olmedo, who served from May 4, 1813, to May 5, 1814.

During the fourth session of the Cortes de Aragón ( the parliament of Aragon ) ( 1995 – 1999 ) under the PP-PAR coalition government the Special Commission Report on the Language Policy of Aragon was published.

The report would be the basis for the Draft of the Language Law of Aragon published the following session ( 1999 – 2003 ) under the PSOE-PAR coalition, where for the first time from the Cortes de Aragón would detail those municipalities which formed part of a Catalan-speaking community, with the aim of recognising co-officiality and encouraging the use of Catalan in public life and especially in education.

In the latter year, he fought with the militia under Francisco Ballesteros and Pablo Morillo to maintain the authority of the Cortes against the rebels.

The abdication led to a provisional government under Niceto Alcalá Zamora, and a constituent Cortes to draw up a new constitution.

Throughout the month of November the Cortes, under the able presidency of Fernández Miranda, debated this law, which it ultimately approved with 425 votes in favor, 59 against, and 13 abstentions.

In 1522 went to Mexico under the command of Hernan Cortes, and subsequently formed part of the conquistador army of Pedro de Alvarado, participating in the conquests of what is now Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador.

The vast ocean under its territory is protected by the local government of Cortes.