Resumen de The making of the ‘Basque’ Political and Representative Institution (1839–1853): end of a protracted Civil War (1833–1839) first project to give continuity to the Foral regime (historical public law) and to the Basque representative assemblies within the Spanish constitutional framework, part III

Joseba Agirreazkuenaga Zigorraga

• In this article Joseba Agirreazkuenaga continues his account of the development of the Basque political institutions to the period following the settlement of the first Carlist war by the Convention of Bergera in 1839. This laid down a process for incorporating the Basque foral institutions into the framework of the new liberal constitution of the Spanish monarchy. It required negotiations between the Spanish Cortes and Basque representatives, which produced the institution of the Basque Conferencias to speak for the three Basque provinces. Once established these developed into the main institutional voice for the developing Basque national movemebt. By the 1860s the Conferencias had virtually acquired the function of a Basque provincial government.