Between the foral State and the foral province
Projects and realities of the political and legal articulation of the foral territories of Vasconia-Euskal Herria in the Spanish Constitutional State, in the time of J. Mañé i Flaquer (1823-1901)
Joseba Agirreazkuenaga
The period between 1839 and 1876 the initiative corresponded to the Fuerist leaders versus the political agents of the peripheral administration of the State. Various provincial modification projects were debated in which the touchstone of the various alternatives was the degree of political self-government. New identity formulations emerged under the heading of Basque politics, a kind of political Basqueism, led by the Alava native R. Ortiz de Zárate. The regional public powers built a new internal public administration in competition with the peripheral administration of the State and the regional initiative generated a federal Basque State in the expression of the Alava republican R. Becerro de Bengoa, with representative assemblies for both internal management and its articulation. foreign policy in the Spanish State. Meanwhile, in the former kingdom of Navarra, a provincial province was consolidated that also developed a new provincial public administration with fiscal and administrative autonomy. Spain is recognized as the reference political nation in which foreigners participate with a mentality and awareness of double patriotism, a consequence of the bilateral pact. In short, the provincial public powers aspired to the development in practice of a sense of shared sovereignty, in a contract nation.