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    Posted: 26-Nov-2005 at 12:33

I have never really understood what The Cortes really was and I believe some Spanish expert can explain it to me.

 

PS! I am not talking of Hernan Cortes.
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Originally posted by rider

I have never really understood what The Cortes really was and I believe some Spanish expert can explain it to me.


That's the Parlament. It means literally the Courts. In singular (corte) can also be used for a tribunal.

PS! I am not talking of Hernan Cortes.



Of course. Because it is Hernn Corts, which means Hernn (a version of Ferdinand) Courteous.

Cortes (as in las Cortes Generales del Reino) has the emphasis in the first syllabe [KOHR-tehs]. Corts has the emphasis in the last syllabe [kohr-TEHS] instead.

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It's not actually a parlament. It's a general assembly, consisting of representants of the three orders, usually gathered to invest a new King or for the monarch to pass an important law. It became obsolete with the advent of Absolutism, having a brief appearance before the organization of Political Parties and modern democracy.
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Well, in Spain the Parlament is still called Las Cortes, it consists of a Congress of Deputies (low chamber) and a Senate (upper chamber). Of course, in Medieval times it was diferent. 

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