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Spanish Constitution of 1931

1931 · 20th century

The Spanish Constitution of 1931 was approved by the Cortes on 9 December 1931 as the founding law of the Second Spanish Republic. It declared Spain a 'democratic republic of workers of all classes', separated church and state, allowed divorce and regional autonomy, and gave women the vote. Its anticlerical articles divided the country, and it remained formally in force until the Republic's defeat in the Spanish Civil War in 1939.

Spanish Constitution of 1931
Image: España, en uso de su soberanía, y representada por las Cortes Constituyentes. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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