Analysis of Article 6, Organic Law of the State
Comment. Article 6 of the Organic Law ..
The document is a primary source that has a political and legal nature since it is a law, specifically Article 6 of Title II of the Organic Law of the State, the last of the Fundamental Laws of the Franco dictatorship.
It is a document whose authorship is given by Government of Spain itself within the framework of the Organic Law of State 1966. The document is a general target for Spanish citizenship and is to shape the end of the institutionalization of the Franco regime, born of the Civil War. The chronology of the document gives us himself (1962) and corresponds to the second stage of the dictatorship of General. The Franco regime was a conservative military dictatorship, which was introduced at the beginning of the Civil War (July 1936) and ended with the dictator’s death in November 1975.) Despite the illiberal and undemocratic nature of the Franco dictatorship, she wanted to have a set of basic rules (Fundamental Law) which apparently satisfied the requirements that have a real constitution. Fundamental Laws were: Labour Law, which was developed in Civil War and now in the 40 others were written as the Law Courts, laws both fascist orientation, the Referendum Act, the Jurisdiction of the Spanish and Succession Act, laws to try to appear closer to democracy, and in 1958 the Law on the Principles of the Movement, developmental law, established the basic principles of the Franco regime, and it fully away from the fundamentals are fascists and of democracy, parliamentary. The text corresponds to one of the most important items because summarizes the characters that define the Franco regime by detailing the responsibilities of the Head of State., Which embodies the highest representation of the state, thus assuming even national sovereignty and therefore is not subject to any supervisory body, holds the exercise of supreme power and also political and administrative sanctions, promulgated, administered justice on their behalf and exercise the prerogative of mercy, that is, there is no division of powers, as has the overriding authority the three state powers: executive, administrative and judicial exercise supreme command of armies, he is the “generalissimo” and National Movement headquarters and is also the highest interpreter of the foundations of the National Movement, the only legal political party FET de las JONS, ie the National Catholicism, the national syndicalism and Nacionalpatriotismo, and finally, gives jobs, offices and honors and controls foreign policy. Franco said that this standard had been doing since his victory in the Civil War, dictatorial rule by concentrating power in his hands like no other president had done in the history of Spain. He is! “Leader”, the “Generalissimo”, the “savior” of the country, in a cult a. The person typical of all dictators. We can therefore say that the article, although framed within a law that aims to unify the other previous laws is to maintain the basic principles of the authoritarian system. The adoption of the Organic Law of the state had various effects, but did not alter the nature of the dictatorial and undemocratic regime. His forecast called for some legislative changes. The most important made in the year 1967 were: Religious Freedom Act, without altering the religious character of the state, tolerating non-Catholic religious practice in accordance with the Second Vatican Council, and the Representation Family Law Courts , which regulated the elections restricted to solicitors so-called “third family.”This Organic Law goes to show that despite the Spanish development of the sixties, with a significant increase in quality of life of the Spanish social transformation resulting from the goodness of the economy, not shown in any way a political transformation structures of the dictatorship. Dissertation triumphed against timidly reformist groups that will be overcome by the inertia of the system itself. However, in 1968, Spanish society, a changing society and eager for reform, began to demand changes in the political structure, leading to the first social conflicts, especially in the university and labor environments, the occur while the first attacks of the terrorist group ETA. It is the beginning, to the immobility of a long agony of the Franco regime, which is accentuated by the 1973 crisis and the growing anti-Franco opposition unity both within and outside the country. However, not until the dictator’s death, when Juan Carlos I, proclaimed King of Spain, won with all the opposition’s own Franco Cortes approval in late 1976 the Political Reform Act which resulted in the cancellation of all laws Fundamental, including this Organic Law of the State and laid the foundations for the holding of the first free general elections since the Second Republic, while bringing back the Spanish people’s sovereignty had been seized by force of arms.