Question
Original-language term required. João VI returned from his Brazilian exile after vintistas from Porto convened one of these bodies with Brazilian deputies in 1820. For 10 points each:
[10m] Brazil’s 1823 Constituent Assembly was subordinate to what type of Iberian parliament in Lisbon? During Spain’s Triennio Liberal, Rafael Riego restored one of these assemblies that met in Cádiz in 1812.
ANSWER: Cortes [accept Cortes Generales or Cortes Gerais; accept Cortes of Cádiz or Cádiz Cortes; accept Cortes Gerais e Extraordinárias da Nação Portuguesa; reject “corte” or “courts”]
[10e] In 1822, Lisbon’s Cortes created the first of these things in Portugal. During the “Ominous Decade,” Ferdinand VII abolished one of these things created by the Cádiz Cortes and returned Spain to absolutism.
ANSWER: constitutions [accept charters; accept constitutional monarchy; accept Constitución de Cádiz or Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy or Constitución Política; accept Portuguese Constitution of 1822 or Political Constitution of the Portuguese Monarchy or Constituição Política; prompt on documents or texts]
[10h] Portugal’s 1826 Constitution adapted monarchical “moderating power” inspired by this Swiss-born political theorist from the 1824 Brazilian Constitution. This man drafted an ephemeral French constitution in 1815.
ANSWER: Benjamin Constant [or Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 25 | 10.40 | 64% | 28% | 12% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago C | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | Duke | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | Penn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Waterloo | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | Maryland | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | NYU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Purdue | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Carolina | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Team 1 | Team 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Johns Hopkins | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | Arizona State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |