Law I / What Punishment Is For
Practice question · Put in order

Arrange these Spanish criminal codes in chronological order.

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  1. The first two fall within twenty-six years of each other.
  2. The republican code precedes the current one by sixty-three years.
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  1. The first Spanish Criminal Code, 1822
  2. The Criminal Code of 1848
  3. The Criminal Code of 1870
  4. The Criminal Code of the Second Republic, 1932
  5. The Criminal Code now in force, 1995
Why

Spain has recodified its criminal law roughly every constitutional generation, which is a sign of something specific: criminal law is where a constitutional settlement is most directly expressed, so a change of settlement tends to bring a new code rather than an amendment to the old one.

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