Analysis of Article 6, Organic Law of the State
Comment. Article 6 of the Organic Law ..
The document is a primary source that has a political and legal nature since it is a law, specifically Article 6 of Title II of the Organic Law of the State, the last of the Fundamental Laws of the Franco dictatorship.
It is a document whose authorship is given by Government of Spain itself within the framework of the Organic Law of State 1966. The document is a general target for Spanish citizenship and is to shape the end of the institutionalization of the
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The Food Crisis (1917)
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