Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: actions of ecclesiastical leaders and those political officials and members of the media who supported them created an atmosphere of tension and hostility that increased following the burning of churches and convents by anticlerical groups.4 In this milieu, Republican religious policy manifested itself in the Constitution of 1931 in three fundamental aspects: 1) the separation of church and state; 5 2) the recognition of religious freedom; 6 and 3) the subjection of religious faiths to special laws.7 These measures presupposed a fundamental change in the status of the Catholic Church and, at the same time, an opening for non-Catholic denominations.Though novel for Spain, such measures had already been adopted in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1789, 8 the French Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789, 9 and the For Manuel Ramírez Jiménez, the origin of the religion question must be situated in the birth of Spanish constitutionalism: "It was the Parliament of Cádiz, together with the Constitution of 1812, that bequeathed the religion question to the future."MANUEL RAMÍREZ
Author: José Antonio Souto Paz
Institution: Brigham Young University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W348171589