Footnote 851: Art. 62. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 212.[(Back)]
Footnote 852: Art. 50. Ibid., II., 210.[(Back)]
Footnote 853: It is required that subsequent to a declaration of war or the conclusion of peace the king shall submit to the Cortes a report accompanied by pertinent documents.[(Back)]
Footnote 854: The rank of grandee (grande) is a dignity conferred by the sovereign, either for life or as an hereditary honor.[(Back)]
Footnote 855: Art. 21. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 204[(Back)]
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Footnote 856: Arts. 20-26. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 203-206.[(Back)]
Footnote 857: There is the customary regulation that soldiers and sailors in active service may not vote.[(Back)]
Footnote 858: J. Vila Serra, Manual de elecciones de Diputados a Cortes (Valencia, 1907); J. Lon y Albareda, Nueva ley electoral de 8 de Agosto de 1907, comentada (Madrid, 1907); M. Vivanco y L. San Martin, La reforma electoral (Madrid, 1907).[(Back)]
Footnote 859: It is to be observed that these guarantees are not quite absolute. During the crisis of 1904 the Maura government required the Congress to suspend the legislative immunity of no fewer than 140 members, and for the first time since 1834 deputies were handed over to the courts to be tried for offenses of a purely political character.[(Back)]