nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170327-210800 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170327s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170327-210800 doi eng 342 23 Urías, Joaquín Author aut Damaging the Legitimacy of the Spanish Constitutional Court Urías, Joaquín Verfassungsblog 2017-03-27 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Spanish legislative burdens the Constitutional Court with the task to prevent Catalonia from pursuing independence. To use the Constitutional Court as the main barricade against any attempt at starting the independence process does tremendous damage to the Court itself as it undermines its perception as neutral arbiter and, thereby, its legitimation. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Catalonia Separatism Spanish Constitutional Court Venice Commission Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/damaging-the-legitimacy-of-the-spanish-constitutional-court/ raw object