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The University of Murcia celebrates two hundred years of Freedom of Speech in Spain (22/04/2013)

Today, Monday, April 22, at 11.30 hours, opens in the General Library of exposure Espinardo "Members Murcia in the Cortes of Cadiz. The region of Murcia and the Constitution of 1812" Two centuries of Freedom printing.

This is an exhibition organized by the Joint Commission Regional Assembly of Murcia-Real Academia Alfonso X the Wise, curated by Pascual Vera and coordinated by Ana M ª Martín Luque, which now extends from the Vice President for Communication and Coordination with the theme "Two centuries of Freedom of Speech ", to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the first Spanish law on Freedom of the Press, a law that was pioneered in our country and that was the basis for many of the freedoms enjoyed by Spanish today.

The exhibition opens on Monday April 22 at 11.30 am at the Main Library Espinardo Campus, co-organizer of the event.

Those who come to this show will know the work of the first deputies Murcia in those courts that approved the first Spanish Constitution and enacted one of the first in the world, and the circumstances in which they occurred in those first cuts in our history the decree of Freedom of Speech, first heavily debated in the Cortes of Cadiz.

Agustín Argüelles was the first to bring it up.

It was the September 27, 1810.

Just had held three parliamentary parliamentary sessions.

Argüelles defended the virtues of freedom of the press with a resounding speech: "How many have spread knowledge around Europe were born of this freedom, and nations have risen to a proportion that has been more perfect. The other, obscured by ignorance and chained by despotism, have been immersed in opposite proportion. Spain, sorry to say, is among the latest [...] ".

The November 10, 1810 promulgating the decree of freedom of the press.

His first article read:

"All bodies and individuals of any condition or state that are have the freedom to write, print and publish their political views without a license, review and endorsement prior to the publication, refunds and responsibilities that are expressed in the this decree. "

Preliminary Discourse 1812 Constitution incorporates these judgments on freedom of expression: "As nothing contributes more directly to the illustration and overall advancement of nations, and the preservation of its independence that the freedom to publish all the ideas and thoughts that can be useful and beneficial to the people of a state, freedom of the press, real vehicle lights must be part of the fundamental law of the monarchy, if Spanish earnest desire to be free and happy. "

This law, unusual in the history of Spain, is a definite factor that gives wings to the new form of journalism now being born.

The first article of the decree of freedom of the press was blunt about it: "All bodies and individuals, whatever their condition or state that they are, they are free to write, print and publish their political views without a license, review or approval" .

Source: UMU

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