The restored Bourbon king of Spain, during…

May 1814 CE

The restored Bourbon king of Spain, during his journey from Girona to Madrid and in the following months, had been encouraged by conservatives and the Church hierarchy to reject the Constitution.

On May 4 he had ordered its abolition and on May 10 has the liberal leaders responsible for the Constitution arrested.

Ferdinand justifies his actions by claiming that the Constitution had been made by a Cortes illegally assembled in his absence, without his consent and without the traditional form. (It had met as a unicameral body, instead of in three chambers representing the three estates: the clergy, the nobility and the cities.)

Ferdinand initially promises to convene a traditional Cortes, but will never do so, thereby reasserting the Bourbon doctrine that sovereign authority resides in his person only.

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