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447, 27 pages; Madrid: Very Good-. 1858. First Edition. 447; 27 pp. Pages; Contemporary blue marbled paper-covered boards, backed with red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. The edges of the boards and the corners show considerable rubbing and wear. Internally, the printed leaves are fresh and remarkably free from foxing or toning. With the Library of Congress bookplate mounted to the front free-endpaper, a tiny "LC" perforated stamp at the foot of the title page, a very lightly inked accession stamp for the LC on the verso of the title page, and the DE-ACQUISITION faint red ink LC stamp "Surplus-Duplicate" across the bookplate, making this copy legal to buy and sell. A scarce legislative document of the short, Republican time of liberalism in Spain -- the terminal year of the "Trienio Liberal" or Three Liberal Years. The three years referred to ran between 1820 and 1823. During this short interlude, a liberal government ruled Spain -- following a military uprising in January 1820 led by the lieutenant-colonel Rafael de Riego against the absolutist Monarchy of Ferdinand VII. King Ferdinand agreed to accept the legitimacy of the liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812. During the Trienio, Ferdinand was still officially King, but was really more-or-less held in captivity as a prisoner of the Cortes for the next three years and retired to Aranjuez. The elections to the Cortes Generales in March, 1822 were won by Rafael del Riego. In December 1822, at the Congress of Verona, the Quintuple Alliance countries (United Kingdom, France, Russia, Prussia and Austria) reached an accord holding that a Spain that could be thought of as republican constituted a threat to the balance of powers in Europe. France was chosen to force a restoration of the absolute monarchy in Spain. On 7 April 1823, the French army, said by the French King to consist of "one hundred thousand men under the banner of St. Louis, " crossed the borders into Spain. Riego took command of the Third Army and resisted the invaders as well as local absolutist groups. On 15 September he was betrayed and taken prisoner. Riego was taken to Madrid (and his name ceases to be mentioned in the index to these papers of the "Cortes. " His pleas for clemency from the King were refused and Riego was found guilty of high treason against altar and throne. The main organizing charge against him was he was one of the members of these Cortes -- the Parliament, who voted in favor of taking the power from the King. November 7th, 1823, he was hanged at La Cebada Square in Madrid. OCLC 912076335 [locating copies only in Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Universidad de Granada. Biblioteca. Under the separate OCLC number 852422618, is added a copy at the Universidad de Deusto - Biblioteca in Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain]. .; Law and Legal History, Spanish Language and Literature, Most Recent Listing.
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