FROM AUTONOMUS STATE TO THE FEDERAL STATE? THE ILLUSION TO FLY WITH CLIPPED WINGS

Abstract

The author considers that the democratic constitutions of Spain (1931, 1978) have not successful in the matter of territorial distribution of power, because have denied the reality of a state in which there are different national feelings. Only an emotional federalism, that is, to work for unity on the idea of federal loyalty can set an alternative link. To achieve this, more important than introducing typical institutions of a federa state it is recognize diversity and generate a true federal culture in which equality is the result of good management of the difference