The Constitution, as well as being directly applicable by the judiciary, enjoys a material supremacy that determines the rest of the laws in Spain.
At its heart, national sovereignty permits the election, by universal suffrage (men and woman older than 18), of representatives of the sovereign people in the Cortes Generales.
The judicial powers fall into the hands of the judges and courts, an office which the public has access to, and in a jury, which is formed by nationals chosen by lottery in every case.
The Constitutional Court controls the laws and the actions of the public administration must fit into the Magna Carta.
Article 1.2 of the Spanish Civil Code establishes that inferior and superior laws to be distinguished.
The relationship between autonomous and national laws depends the competencies established in the Constitution and in the respective Statute of Autonomy.
Only European Community law in line with precedential Spanish Constitution 1978, provincial, diplomatic and judicial findings can be considered to have standing.
Spanish culture restrains many challenges that knowledgeable lawyers are prepared to pursue if required by a case.
Laws are to be interpreted according to the proper meaning of their words, in relation to their context, historic and legal records and the social reality of the time in which they have to be applied, paying particular attention to the spirit and finality of the above.