Nexos liberales. La Constitución de Estados Unidos y la española de 1812

Although the influence of the French and English constitutions on the Cadiz Constitution of 1812 has been widely studied, their connections with the 1787 United States Constitution, still in force, are less well known. The purpose of this book is not to gauge the influence of the American Constitution on the Spanish one, but to evaluate its similarities and differences in light of the liberal principles that came from the Enlightenment, and that promotedthe independence of North America and the end of absolutism in Spain. Despite the fact that neither of them promulgated universal sovereignty and they had to face the constitutional fit of slavery, in the case of the United States, and of the "brown castes", in Spanish, their principles regarding separation and limitation of powers, equality before the law, individual liberties, national sovereignty, and the supremacy of the Constitution over any other power, continue to constitute the foundations of current democratic societies. Its author offers a detailed and rigorous analysis of both the philosophical and ideological aspects that founded these constitutions and the sociohistorical context from which they arose, conditioning their unequal fortune.