The subject content consists of a set of matters of constitutional law which aim to provide students with a reasonable level of basic knowledge: 1. Knowledge of origins, historical development and current meaning of concept of Constitution and its functions in the context of the social and democratic State, subject to the rule of law. 2. Knowledge of the period of political transition processes to democracy and the constituent phase of 1978 Spanish Constitution, as well as the general meaning of the main principles underlying the Spanish Constitution and to be able to observe and distinguish its manifestations in the constitutional text. 3. Knowledge of the sources of law and the general principles of operation of the legal system. 4. Knowledge of the normative value of the Constitution and its effects on legal system; and the mechanisms which ensure the supremacy of the Constitution, specially jurisdictional protection developed by the Constitutional Court. 5. Knowledge of the system of sources of law in the Spanish legal system. In other words, the different types of existing norms and the relationships between them: Law and types of laws; government regulatory provision with force of law; rules; regulations; international treaties 6. Knowledge and significance of the democratic principle as a basis of the Constitutional Organization and the various instruments which allow the participation in the public affairs 7. Knowledge of the position of the diverse State Central Institutions and the map of the connections among them (Crown, Cortes Generales or Parliament, Government and the Judicial Power) 8. Knowledge of the basis of the territorial organization of the State, giving special attention to the Autonomous Communities: organization, competencies distribution, relations with the State...

1. LAW, STATE AND CONSTITUTION 1.1. Origins of Modern Constitutionalism 1.2. Concept of Constitution. 1.3. State as political organization model. 2. THE SPANISH CONSTITUTION OF 1978. 2.1. The period of political transition processes to democracy 2.2. Drafting the 1978 Constitution 2.3. Structure and basic elements of the constitutional text 3. SOURCES OF LAW SYSTEM. 3.1. Concept of source of law 3.2. Criteria to resolve the conflict between norms 3.3. Validity and effectiveness of legal standards 4. CONSTITUTION AS SUPERIOR LAW 4.1. Constitution as legal norm 4.2. Constitution as supreme law 5. GUARANTEE OF THE SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION [I] 5.1. Constitutional reform A) Constitutional rigidity. Nature and models of constitutional reform; B) Procedures for amending the Constitution: ordinary and extraordinary 5.2. The jurisdictional defense of the Constitution: Constitutional Court A) Nature and constitutional jurisdiction models B) Spanish constitutional jurisdiction model C) Constitutional Court: composition, structure and functions D) Judicial Review or Constitutionality control 6. LAW AS A SOURCE OF LAW 6.1. Legislative power: status and force of law. 6.2. Types of laws. 6.3. Government regulations with force of primary law: legislative decree; decree-law 7. INTERNATIONAL AND SUPRANATIONAL SOURCES OF LAW 7.1. International treaties in the system of sources 7.2. European Union Law 8. AUTONOMOUS STATE AND SOURCES OF LAW 7.1. Territorial model. Constitutional framework of Autonomous State 8.2. Statute of Autonomy 8.3. Other State laws on autonomous regime 8.4. The legal system of autonomous communities. 8.5. The relationship between autonomous and State law 9.- DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM AS THE BASIS FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT 9.1. The democratic legitimation process: the elections legal framework; 9.2. The political parties; 9.3. the direct democracy institutions. 10.- THE CROWN 10.1. Sucesión and regency 10.2. Responsibility of the King 10.3. Functions 11.- THE PARLIAMENT 11.1. Characteristics, structure and composition; 11.2. Internal organization and functioning; 11.3. Members of the Parliament statute; 11.4. Functions. 12.- THE EXECUTIVE 12.1. The Government: composition and formation 12.2. Government structure and its members 12.3. Executive functions. 13. RELATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT 13.1. Parliamentary control 13.2. Political responsibility 13.3. Dissolution of the Parliament 14.- THE JUDICIAL POWER 14.1. Organization, structure and functioning 14.2. Judges and magistrates statute 14.3. Judiciary government 15.- THE STATE TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION 15.1. Territorial model 15.2. Autonomy of nationalities and regions. 15.3. Process of creation of Autonomous Communities. The autonomic process 15.4. Distribution of powers

The program of this course will be developed in lectures and they will be held in large group sessions. Other types of activities may be carried out in small groups. Activities like the resolution of cases studies, exhibitions of the students, discussions of the work documents, proceedings or presentations of works of the initiation to the investigation, without excluding the realization of periodical controls about the subject matter developed in the semester. *Due to the uncertainty about the teaching format to which the health circumstances will take us during the next academic year, it is expected to start in the blended modality, and may lead to 100% face-to-face or 100% on-line teaching depending on the spread or the control over the pandemic and the hygiene-sanitary measures adopted by the Authorities