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The Informative Bulletin of the University of Salamanca Political Law Seminar, created and directed by Enrique Tierno Galván, assisted by the enthusiastic dedication of his young university collaborators, encouraged the democratic and pro-european concerns they professed and introduced currents of thought that helped to renew the social sciences in Spain. The Bulletin was published for ten years overcoming material difficulties and those that the political regime imposed to the free and plural expression of ideas. Authors from different specialties wrote on its pages, many already renowned at the time, and others that would become renowned later [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reform of art. 135 CE, made urgently in order to ensure fiscal stability and to promote economic and social sustainability of the country has shown the gradual erosion of some of the traditional paradigms of constitutionalism. In particular, the content analysis of the new Article 135 and of the procedure reveals the tension generated between the European project transfer of sovereignty and democratic legitimacy. This parallel to the reflection on the urgent need to undertake serious reform of a constitutional text that, despite sustained mutations requires an urgent adaptation to a social and political context radically different from that shone over 30 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]