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Mentiras piedosas para lugares de memória? O mito das Cortes de Lamego na história constitucional de Portugal

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Despite their dubious authenticity, the laws adopted at the Cortes de Lamego of 1143 (an equally disputed date) were seen as the basis of Portugal's customary constitution from the time of their timely rediscovery in the early 17th century during Spanish rule (1580-1640). Until the period of the New State (1933-1974), their political and constitutional use served almost every cause, even the most opposed: Portuguese independence, at the time of the Restoration (1640-1668); national sovereignty and human constituent power at the time of the liberal revolution of Porto (1820-1822); the submission of men to the divine constituent power, implying the respect of the historical and/or natural constitution of the country during the reign of D. Miguel (1828-1834); the early introduction of the parliamentary regime in Portugal, the constitutional monarchy and the rejection of Iberism at the end of the 19th century; and even "lusotropicalism" and the legitimacy of the colonial Empire in the 1960s.