Resumen de The suppression of the Cortes of Navarre, as seen by three coetaneous authors (1828–41)

Xabier Zabaltza Pérez-Nievas

• This article examines the debate which took place in Navarre about the nature and future of its Cortes (the representative and legislative body during the ancien régime) between 1828, the last year it was summoned to meet, and 1841, the year in which the Law on the Modification of the Fueros (termed a posteriori the ‘Agreed Law’) was enacted, which abolished the institution definitively. Special attention is given to Ángel Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz, the syndic of the Deputation of the Kingdom who favoured maintaining the Cortes, José Yanguas y Miranda, a liberal historian who defended its abolition, and Joaquín Ignacio Mencos, the Baron of Bigüézal and Count of Guenduláin, whose views fell somewhere in between these two positions.