Spanish Constitution game: powers, bodies of the State and laws
A game for understanding how the Spanish State is organised under the 1978 Constitution. Something that happens in political life appears («votes to invest the Prime Minister», «decides whether a law goes against the Constitution», «tries a person accused of a crime») and you say which body or which power is responsible; when you answer, an organisation chart with the Crown, Parliament, the Government, the judiciary, the Constitutional Court, the Ombudsman and the autonomous communities lights up the answer. You also get the Constitution’s numbers, the difference between fundamental rights, guiding principles and duties, the powers of the State and of the regions and, on the hard level, the steps in making a law.
Geography · Secondary, Sixth form
You tap the body on the whole chart, so you really have to tell apart the typical mix-ups: Congress and the Senate, the Government and the King, the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, the CGPJ and the judges. Seeing the chart light up when you answer fixes where each one sits and which power it belongs to (or why the Constitutional Court belongs to none).
Education is a fundamental right, protected by an amparo appeal; housing or health are guiding principles, which guide the authorities but cannot be claimed the same way before a judge. Every case comes with its article.
Initiative, Congress, Senate, back to Congress if the Senate changes it, royal assent, publication in the Official Gazette and entry into force. Asking «which step comes next» makes you understand the path, not just memorise a list.
"«It can bring down the Government with a motion of no confidence» appears. Which body is it? The Congress of Deputies (Article 113): it can only do so if it elects another Prime Minister by absolute majority at the same time, as happened in 2018. It is not the Senate, which plays no part in investiture or no-confidence votes, nor the King, whose role is to propose the candidate and appoint them."
Prefer to learn without screens? Try this analogue version:
Draw the chart: the Crown at the top, the three powers below and, to one side, the Constitutional Court, the Ombudsman and the autonomous communities.
Write ten things from the news on cards (a law, a trial, a decree, a no-confidence motion…).
Put each card on the body responsible and find the article of the Constitution that says so.
Check the cases you were unsure about in the game.
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