LAS CARTAS AUTONÓMICAS DE CUBA Y PUERTO RICO: PRIMER ANTECEDENTE DEL ESTADO AUTONÓMICO.

The descentralizing desires of Cuba and Puerto Rico were demostrated for the first time in the origins of the constitutional Spanish State, specially in the constituent processes of 1812 and 1836. Later, fron the second half of the XIX century, to the same ones will join the aim of an administrative and political autonomy, specially in case of Cuba. The response of the Spanish State, always late, will lead to Autonomous Letters that will know their publication when the development of the events make an impossible solution. Anyway, such a statutory grant or of «Autonomous Constitution » will supose the first precedent of the above mentioned model regarding organization of the State, the only original aspect of the spanish constitutionalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]