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5.09- God's Divine Wrath

Revolutions

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The Kadis Government Is Sitting There Pretending Like They Don't Even Exist.

The cortes spent the back half of 18 11 crafting the framework of a constitutional monarchy that they hoped would govern the spanish empire after the hopefully inevitable expulsion of the french. The document they ultimately produced was indeed very liberal and took many elements from the early constitutions of the french revolution. But as we discussed last time, who counted as a spaniard in this one spain now lay in the compromise that had already been hashed out over the issue of representation in the qortess. And this was a compromise that would come back to bite them.

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