Law of Jurisdictions

It was promoted by Segismundo Moret, president of the Council of Ministers, and the Count of Romanones, Ministry of Government, with the support of Alfonso XIII, as a reaction to the events of the ¡Cu-Cut!

[2] The new government presided over by the other liberal leader Segismundo Moret, who received the King's order to prevent a repetition of the attacks "on the Army and the symbols of the Motherland",[3] set out to satisfy the military —he appointed General Agustín Luque, one of the general captains who had most applauded the assault on the ¡Cu-Cut!— and quickly had the Cortes approve the Law for the Repression of Crimes against the Motherland and the Army —known as the "Law of Jurisdictions"—, by which from that moment on the competencies to judge them passed to the military jurisdiction.

[2] According to the historian Borja de Riquer, "by tolerating the insubordination of the military in Barcelona, the monarch had left the political system exposed to new pressures and blackmail, which considerably weakened the supremacy of civilian power in the face of militarism".

According to them, "the intervention of the King took place once the initial inability of the government [of Montero Ríos] to impose itself had been proven; he then made General Bascarán, the second head of the Military Quarter, go to the barracks in Madrid, calm down the passionate attitudes and promise on behalf of the monarch a modification of the legislation in that sense.

[...] The role of the king can be much more aptly described as that of an intermediary between civil and military power in a non-democratic institutional framework in which, if the former made the main decisions, the latter, when he was able to act unanimously, achieved autonomy and even deference".

The main argument for its repeal was:In a modern country it should be possible to criticize the Army without fear of prosecution by a special military jurisdiction, nor does the armed Institution need a circumstantial parapet in the relationship with the conscious and free citizenry.