Tribute to the 1978 Constitution

Artwork: Tribute to the 1978 Constitution

Artist: Andreu Alfaro

Location: Constitución square

Date: 1986

The metal sculpture represents the homage of the people of Aldaia to the 1978 Constitution, the supreme body of Spanish law, to which all public authorities and citizens are subject. The Constitution was ratified in a referendum on the 6th of December 1978, and subsequently sanctioned and promulgated by King Juan Carlos I on the 27th of December.

The promulgation of the Constitution implied the culmination of the Transition to democracy, which took place as a result of the death of the former head of State, the dictator General Franco on 20 November 1975. An event that precipitated a series of political and historical events that transformed the former dictatorial regime into a “Social and democratic rule of law, which upholds freedom, justice, equality and political pluralism as the highest values of the legal system”, as proclaimed in the first article of the Constitution.

The Magna Carta strengthens the principle of national sovereignty, which resides in the people, and establishes a parliamentary monarchy as the form of government. It also repeals, in the Repealing Provision, the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom of Franco’s dictatorship, approved in 1938 and modified on multiple occasions

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