Practice question · Multiple choice
Why does the Statute of Autonomy make Spain hard to classify as federal or unitary?
Hints
- Ask who approves a Statute and what it is once approved.
- It is the community's basic norm and a state law at the same time.
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C. It is simultaneously the community's founding text and an organic law of the state
Why
Because it is both: the community's basic institutional norm and an organic law of the state, approved by the Cortes. Neither the federal picture (a constitutionally guaranteed division) nor the unitary one (delegation revocable at will) captures that, and the dual character is why the Constitutional Court adjudicates so much Spanish territorial politics.
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