The king’s place. The configuration of the king’s place since 1837’Constitution

Abstract

In this text there is analyzed the reformulation of the basic principles of the liberalism that was necessary to do to find the place of the king in the model’s change after the liberal revolution; the place could not be other one that of moderating power, but it was not interested in taking away the ownership of the executive power. In Spain it materialized in the Constitution of 1837, outcome from the reform of the mythical one of 1812. This basic principles was the sovereignty and the representative system, the public opinion became the main excuse for the reordering of the power. The secretaries of dispatch, who were the real beneficiaries of the increase of the executive power that was done in the name of the king as the holder of the same one, had to safeguard, however, scrupulously the irresponsibility and prestige of the institution that could do nothing without them and was intended for high functions over the interests of political parties.