Practice question · True or false
The 1978 Constitution created the seventeen autonomous communities directly.
Hints
- Ask what the Constitution actually set out.
- It set out a route by which territories could initiate self-government.
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False
Why
False. It created a process, not a map: provinces with common historical, cultural and economic characteristics could initiate a route to self-government, and the map was assembled over the following years. That is why the competences are asymmetric, different territories travelled different routes at different speeds.
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- Why does the Statute of Autonomy make Spain hard to classify as federal or unitary?
- Sort each feature by whether it supports calling Spain FEDERAL or argues against it.
- Which are elements of the asymmetry in the Spanish territorial system?
- How many autonomous communities does Spain have?
- Complete the account of the autonomic state.
- Arrange the stages of the autonomic process in order.
- The asymmetry of the Spanish system was a design feature that made the 1978 settlement possible.
- Spain is described as federal in practical operation but not in constitutional self-description. What…