Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these Spanish criminal codes in chronological order.
- The Criminal Code of 1870
- The Criminal Code of 1848
- The Criminal Code of the Second Republic, 1932
- The Criminal Code now in force, 1995
- The first Spanish Criminal Code, 1822
Hints
- The first two fall within twenty-six years of each other.
- The republican code precedes the current one by sixty-three years.
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- The first Spanish Criminal Code, 1822
- The Criminal Code of 1848
- The Criminal Code of 1870
- The Criminal Code of the Second Republic, 1932
- 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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