Bayonne Statute

Joseph Bonaparte

The Bayonne Statute (Spanish: Estatuto de Bayona),[1] also called the Bayonne Constitution (Constitución de Bayona)[2] or the Bayonne Charter (Carta de Bayona),[1][a] was a constitution or a royal charter (carta otorgada)[4] approved in Bayonne, France, 6 July 1808, by Joseph Bonaparte as the intended basis for his rule as king of Spain.

The constitution was Bonapartist in overall conception, with some specific concessions made in an attempt to accommodate Spanish culture. Few of its provisions were ever put into effect: his reign as Joseph I of Spain was largely consumed by continuous conventional and guerrilla war as part of the Peninsular War.[5]

  1. ^ a b c Ignacio Fernández Sarasola, Ignacio Pérez Sarasola, La primera Constitución española: El Estatuto de Bayona Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
  2. ^ Ignacio Fernández Sarasola, La Constitución de Bayona (1808), ISBN 978-84-96717-74-9. Listing retrieved 2010-03-12.
  3. ^ Constitution of 1808
  4. ^ de Mendoza, Alfonso Bullon; de Valugera, Gomez (1991). Alonso, Javier Parades (ed.). Revolución y contrarrevolución en España y América (1808–1840). Editorial Actas. p. 78. ISBN 84-87863-03-5. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^ de Mendoza, Alfonso Bullon; de Valugera, Gomez (1991). Alonso, Javier Parades (ed.). Revolución y contrarrevolución en España y América (1808–1840). Editorial Actas. pp. 71–73. ISBN 84-87863-03-5. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)


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