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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.
Second-in-command to Hernan Cortes, Pedro de Alvarado was sent to the Guatemala highlands with 300 Spanish foot soldiers, 120 Spanish horsemen and several hundred Cholula and Tlascala auxiliaries.
Each member of the Cortes was to represent 70, 000 people.
King was prevented from either convening or proroguing the Cortes.
Amadeus – a liberal who swore by the liberal constitution the Cortes promulgated – was faced immediately with the incredible task of bringing the disparate political ideologies of Spain to one table.
Autonomy was granted, not through an Act of the Cortes ( the Legislative branch of Spain ), but through an edict of the monarch.
The samba-canção was released in 1928 with the recording " Ai, yo-yo " by Aracy Cortes.
The derived autonomous regimes for the BAC was approved in later referendum but the autonomy of Navarre ( amejoramiento del fuero: " improvement of the charter ") was never subject to referendum but just approved by the Navarrese Cortes ( parliament ).
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.
Importation to the American mainland was in the mid 16th century by Hernan Cortes and Hernando de Soto, and in the mid 17th century by Sieur de La Salle.
The original SVM algorithm was invented by Vladimir N. Vapnik and the current standard incarnation ( soft margin ) was proposed by Vapnik and Corinna Cortes in 1995.
It is said that Charles spoke several vernacular languages: he was fluent in French, Flemish, later adding an acceptable Spanish which was required by the Castilian Cortes Generales as a condition for becoming King of Castile.
In the Castilian Cortes of Valladolid of 1506, and of Madrid of 1510 he was sworn as prince of Asturias, heir-apparent of his mother the queen Joanna.
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.
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.
He was a procurador ( member of the lower house ) of the Cortes Españolas during the last decade of the Franco regime, from 1964 until the restoration of democracy in 1977.
Named in 1903 for C. H. Markham, a railroad engineer for Southern Pacific, the town was founded in 1901 as Cortes.
On the expulsion of Queen Isabella II of Spain, he returned to Spain, represented Manresa in the Cortes, and in 1871 — 1872 was successively minister of the colonies and of finance.
He was named administrator of the kingdom by the Cortes of Castile in 1510, and entrusted the government mainly to Archbishop Cisneros.

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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.
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.
The Congress of Deputies must be integrated by a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 400 deputies ( members of parliament ) — currently 350 — elected by universal, free, equal, direct and secret suffrage, to four-year terms or until the dissolution of the Cortes Generales.
The convening of the Cortes de León in the cloisters of the Basilica of San Isidoro would be one of the most important events of Alfonso's reign.
Alfonso's convening of the Cortes is considered by many historians, including Australia's John Keane, to be instrumental to the formation democratic parliaments across Europe.
In March 1385 he went to Coimbra, to which he had summoned the Portuguese Cortes ; they declared Beatrice illegitimate and proclaimed the Master of Aviz to be King of Portugal as John I on 6 April.
If the Prince of Asturias is himself a minor, then the Cortes Generals shall appoint a Regency which may be composed of one, three, or five persons.
Otherwise, the Cortes Generales shall appoint both the Regent ( s ) and the guardian, who in this case may not be held by the same person, except by the father or mother of direct relation of the king.
For the Crown to nominate the political leader whose party controls the Cortes can be seen as a royal endorsement of the democratic process, a fundamental concept enshrined in the 1978 constitution.
Following the general election of the Cortes Generales ( Cortes ), and other circumstances provided for in the constitution, the king meets with and interviews the political party leaders represented in the Congress of Deputies, and then consults with the Speaker of the Congress of Deputies ( officially, Presidente de Congreso de los Diputados de España, who, in this instance, represents the whole of the Cortes Generales and was himself elected from within the Congress to be the Speaker ) before nominating his candidate for the presidency, according to Section 99 of Title IV.
The Cortes also enacted an agrarian reform program, under which large private landholdings ( latifundia ) were to be confiscated and distributed among the rural poor.
: 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.
A seven-member panel was selected among the elected members of the Cortes to work on a draft of the Constitution to be submitted to the body.
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.
After being defeated in battle by the Spaniards, the Tlaxcalans entered into an alliance with Cortes that would be invaluable in the struggle against the Aztecs.
As older maps confirm, Spanish authorities and local residents were well aware where the actual northern terminus of the Gulf of California lay, but by extending the coastline north past Cape Mendocino and eventually even into Puget Sound, Drake's claim of Nova Albion for England ( 1579 ) could be invalidated by the priority of Cortes ' claim ( 1533 ).
However, based in one decision of the Cortes de Lamego, Maria Pia claimed to be the rightful Queen of Portugal.
The Constitution, including all matters of succession, could only be amended by the Cortes.
The Cortes asked Sebastian several times to go to Morocco and stop the turmoil of the advancing Turkish military presence, because the Ottomans would be a threat to the security of the Portuguese coasts and to the commerce with Guinea, Brazil and the Atlantic Islands.
Power y Giralt died while still in Cádiz ( he would be succeeded in the Cortes by José María Quiñones who served from 25 November 1813 — 10 May 1814 ) on 10 June 1813 from the yellow fever epidemic which had spread throughout Europe.
Due to the rapid pace of the events, and without time for the new Constitution to be passed by the Cortes, Pi i Margall found himself between a rock and the proverbial hard place of the cantonal revolution.

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Between 1810 and 1814, the island elected six representatives to the Cortes, in addition to forming a locally-elected Provincial Deputation.
Between 1810 and 1814 the Captaincy General elected seven representatives to the Cádiz Cortes, in addition to forming a locally-elected Provincial Deputation.
In the same month, the Proclamation of the First Spanish Republic by the Cortes on February 11, 1873 reaffirmed Cuba as inseparable to Spain, Martí responded with an essay, The Spanish Republic and the Cuban Revolution, and sent it to the Prime Minister, pointing out that this new freely elected body of deputies that had proclaimed a republic based on democracy had been hypocritical not to grant Cuba its freedom.
On 10 June 1987, having resigned his parliamentary seat, he was elected to the Cortes of Castile-León, where he was elected president of this Autonomous Region.
In 1870, he was elected as a deputy in the Cortes Generales, the Spanish parliament, where he promoted abolition of slavery.
Lisbon soon fell, and Philip was elected King of Portugal at the Portuguese Cortes of Tomar in 1581, on condition that the kingdom and its overseas territories would not become Spanish provinces.
Brazilian representatives were elected to the Portuguese Constitutional Courts ( Cortes Constitucionais Portuguesas ).
He led the integration of the Republican Union Party into the Popular Front, being elected the speaker of the Cortes ( Spanish Parliament ).
Article 67. 3 of the Spanish Constitution prohibits dual membership of both chambers of the Cortes or of the Cortes and regional assemblies, meaning that candidates must resign from regional assemblies if elected.
Article 67. 3 of the Spanish Constitution prohibits dual membership of both chambers of the Cortes or of the Cortes and regional assemblies, meaning that candidates must resign from regional assemblies if elected.
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.
On the 6 November 1870 Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, was elected king of Spain, but General Prim, on leaving the chamber of the Cortes on 28 December, was shot by unknown assassins and died two days later.
In October 1982 he was elected as AP member of the Cortes Generales for Cádiz in spite of having no connection to this Andalucian town.
) The Junta Suprema dissolved itself before Power could arrive, nevertheless, the following year on 16 April he was again elected to represent Puerto Rico, this time in the Spanish Cortes, the parliamentary assembly that had been convened by the Junta and was gathering in the Southern Spanish port of Cádiz.
On the 25th of september, 1810, the second day of regular meetings, he was elected as vice-president of the Cortes and succeeded in obtaining powers which would benefit the economy of the Puerto Rico.
The Senate was to be a house of territorial representation, four senators being elected by the Cortes of each one of the states.

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