The restored Bourbon king of Spain, during…
May 1814 CE
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.