LA CUESTIÓN NACIONAL EN LA CONSTITUCIÓN TERRITORIAL DEL ESTADO AUTONÓMICO

Abstract

The identification like “nation” of some Autonomous Communities has been one of the most controversial questions during the process of statutory reforms. Opposite to those who consider of doubtful constitutionality such identification, the article supports, in the light of the constituent debates, that with the term “nationalities” of the art. 2 CE it was not tried but to recognize the possible existence of diff erent “cultural nations” in the Autonomous State. For this one and other reasons indicated in this work, the Spanish Constitution is the best adapted one to give coverage to the current nationalistic peripheral movements, characterized for not aspiring necessarily to the sovereignty.