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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by Maken on Saturday September 30, 2017 @11:03AM (#15373137)
The King of the Corona was far from an absolute monarchy, and there limits to what the monarchy could do. The Fueros were a kind of primitive Constitution pacted between the king and the kingdom (mostly the nobility), and nobody was above it.

Of course this put severe conatrains to the royal power, and the Habsburg had been trying for a long time to get rid of the Fueros and it was the first thing the Borbons did when they took over the Corona.

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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by euyyn on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:23PM (#15374244)
What were these limits? What did the Constitutions allow the nobility do against the will of the king, assuming a king that wanted to uphold them?

> nobody was above it.

It's not like there was an independent judiciary branch with the power to enforce that against the nobles or the king. Case in point: the king decided to eliminate them and he just went and did it.

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