Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez left an important and indelible imprint on Spain’s contemporary history. Suárez was key to the successful achievement of the peaceful and legal transition from Franco’s regime to a democracy which has lasted for nearly four decades. However, nearly all his political successes were unexpected, including becoming Prime Minister in 1976.
The founding fathers of the American democracy are those who took part in the Philadelphia Convention, which approved the United States Constitution in 1787. The state delegates appointed general George Washington first President of the newly born United States of America. Among first-rate founding fathers are the three first presidents: Washington, John Adams and Jefferson. Second-rate ones include the most active delegates in favour of one of the two plans: the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey Plan. And in the third place are all other delegates who signed said Convention.
Anyone who has lived the Spanish Transition will remember with nostalgia a time when difficulties, which were many, were overcame with the eagerness of doing things well. Unlike previous times, past mistakes, which hade made Spanish democracy very brief, were known and borne in mind, and the majority willed not to repeat them. Like Suárez said, the predominant aim was to make coexistence long-lasting and not just a parenthesis.
When on July 3, 1976, King Juan Carlos I chose Adolfo Suárez as Prime Minister of Spain amongst the three candidates submitted by the Privy Council, few people knew his name.
“The path to provide this country with a Constitution which, like His Majesty the King stated in these same Cortes, will offer a place for each Spaniard, will enshrine the rights and freedoms of citizens and will offer legal protection to all cases which might occur in a plural society, is open. While we await the Constitution, it seems clear that the democratic process is now irreversible. The spirit of the Crown, our people’s maturity and the responsibility and realism of political parties have made it irreversible.”
JOSÉ MARÍA LASALLEOcho años de gobierno: una visión personal de España (JOSÉ MARÍA AZNAR)JAVIER ZARZALEJOSPalabra de vasco. La parla imprecisa del soberanismo ()TULIO DEMICHELISi me quieres escribir (PEDRO CORRAL)JOSÉ LUIS RESTÁN¡Levantaos! ¡vamos! (JUAN PABLO II)MOISÉS RUBIAS BARRERAOccidente contra occidente (ANDRE GLUCKSMANN)MIGUEL ÁNGEL QUINTANILLA NAVARROEl poder legislativo estatal en el estado autonómico (ENRIQUE ARNALDO / JORDI DE JUAN)JOSÉ MANUEL DE TORRESRetos de la sociedad biotecnológica. Ciencia y Ética ()
03.25.2014. Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez left an important and indelible imprint on Spain’s contemporary history. Suárez was key to the successful achievement of the peaceful and legal transition from Franco’s regime to a democracy which has lasted for nearly four decades. However, nearly all his political successes were unexpected, including becoming Prime Minister in 1976.
03.25.2014. The founding fathers of the American democracy are those who took part in the Philadelphia Convention, which approved the United States Constitution in 1787. The state delegates appointed general George Washington first President of the newly born United States of America. Among first-rate founding fathers are the three first presidents: Washington, John Adams and Jefferson. Second-rate ones include the most active delegates in favour of one of the two plans: the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey Plan. And in the third place are all other delegates who signed said Convention.
03.24.2014. Anyone who has lived the Spanish Transition will remember with nostalgia a time when difficulties, which were many, were overcame with the eagerness of doing things well. Unlike previous times, past mistakes, which hade made Spanish democracy very brief, were known and borne in mind, and the majority willed not to repeat them. Like Suárez said, the predominant aim was to make coexistence long-lasting and not just a parenthesis.
03.24.2014. When on July 3, 1976, King Juan Carlos I chose Adolfo Suárez as Prime Minister of Spain amongst the three candidates submitted by the Privy Council, few people knew his name.
03.23.2014. “The path to provide this country with a Constitution which, like His Majesty the King stated in these same Cortes, will offer a place for each Spaniard, will enshrine the rights and freedoms of citizens and will offer legal protection to all cases which might occur in a plural society, is open. While we await the Constitution, it seems clear that the democratic process is now irreversible. The spirit of the Crown, our people’s maturity and the responsibility and realism of political parties have made it irreversible.”
07.01.2004. JOSÉ MARÍA LASALLEOcho años de gobierno: una visión personal de España (JOSÉ MARÍA AZNAR)JAVIER ZARZALEJOSPalabra de vasco. La parla imprecisa del soberanismo ()TULIO DEMICHELISi me quieres escribir (PEDRO CORRAL)JOSÉ LUIS RESTÁN¡Levantaos! ¡vamos! (JUAN PABLO II)MOISÉS RUBIAS BARRERAOccidente contra occidente (ANDRE GLUCKSMANN)MIGUEL ÁNGEL QUINTANILLA NAVARROEl poder legislativo estatal en el estado autonómico (ENRIQUE ARNALDO / JORDI DE JUAN)JOSÉ MANUEL DE TORRESRetos de la sociedad biotecnológica. Ciencia y Ética ()
