Fundamental Laws of the Realm

The Organic Law of the State (1/1957) of 10th January [Boletín Oficial del Estado (Official State Bulletin) No. 9, of 11th January] established in its Fourth Transitory Disposition that "within a period of four months as from the promulgation of the present Law, there shall be published the revised texts of the Fundamental Laws, which shall contain the amendments referred to in the additional Provisions of the present Law, after their sanction by the Council of the Realm and their debate by the Council of Ministers".

The fundamental character of the Laws to be revised and the permanent nature and unalterability of the principles that inspire them, as proclaimed by Law on 17th May, 1958, and reiterated in the Organic Law of the State, demand that the task of revision must be limited to substituting in the Fundamental Laws the texts amended by the additional Provisions of the Organic Law of the State, deleting them in the revised draft of said Law and, consequently, reflecting in the exposition of motives of the Fuero de los Españoles (Statute Law of the Spanish People), of the Law of the Cortes and of the Law of Succession, the amendments that have been effected in the particular section.

Finally, the Fundamental Laws have been arranged systematically and not in the chronological order of their promulgation.

In virtue of the fulfilment of the requirements of the aforecited Transitory Regulation, the sanction of the Council of the Realm, and the debate of the Council of Ministers, at their session of the 14th day of April.

I RESOLVE:

Article One.

That the appended revised texts of the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom be approved.

Article Two.

That the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom continue without interruption during the entire period of their enforcement, in the form contained in the Revised Texts, there being derogated whatever dispositions there may be in opposition to the provisions established in said Laws.

I so resolve by the present Decree given at El Pardo on the twentieth day of April nineteen hundred and sixty-seven.

FRANCISCO FRANCO

Witnessed by: LUIS CARRERO BLANCO Under-Secretary of the Presidency of the Government