Significado y aportes de la Constitución de Cádiz de 1812 en el constitucionalismo español e iberoamericano

The purpose of this article is to study the influence of the Constitution of 1812, which is the magna charta of Spanish and Latin American liberalism. This was the main Spanish contribution to modern constitutionalism. Its analysis includes not only its legal text itself but also its historic and intellectual context. The Constitution of 1812 is not only the most brilliant exponent of the Spanish liberalism but also it is the most consolidated expression of the first attempt to accomplish a bourgeois revolution in Spain and Latin America.