CONFLICTS WITH ‘NATIONALITY’ AND ‘NATION’ IN SPAIN

CONFLICTS WITH ‘NATIONALITY’ AND ‘NATION’ IN SPAIN

The demands for the recognition of the distinctiveness of Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia, within the Spanish State became one of the most important challenges in 1978. In fact, the writing of the second article of the Spanish Constitution  in which the "nationalities and regions" of Spain were recognized, was the most hotly debated in the Parliament. Its acceptance was not smooth: the right vigorously opposed it, while the nationalists and the left firmly objected leaving it out. The natural corollary to debating the term "nationalities" was debating the term "nation".

CONFLICTS WITH ‘NATIONALITY’ AND ‘NATION’ IN SPAIN

The demands for the recognition of the distinctiveness of Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia, within the Spanish State became one of the most important challenges in 1978. In fact, the writing of the second article of the Spanish Constitution  in which the "nationalities and regions" of Spain were recognized, was the most hotly debated in the Parliament. Its acceptance was not smooth: the right vigorously opposed it, while the nationalists and the left firmly objected leaving it out. The natural corollary to debating the term "nationalities" was debating the term "nation".

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