Today it is possible to affirm that the principles that constitute the basis of the model of State that today we call the Constitutional State are expressed in the Magna Carta of León. Fundamental pillars of our current institutionality, such as the recognition and protection of individual rights, the Rule of Law and the limitation to Public Power, have their origins precisely in the Western Europe of the Early and High Middle Ages, more specifically in the Cortes de León, which have been well recognized as the first European Democratic Courts. These principles, progressively rooted, were spread both in the late Middle Ages and in the modern era to the rest of Europe and America, finally acquiring its contemporary appearance through that granted by the works of political doctrine of the authors of the Enlightenment.
Dávila Campusano, Óscar. (2019). The protection of fundamental rights in the High Middle spanish age: The Carta Magna of León. Revista Chilena De Historia Del Derecho, (25), pp. 203–211. https://doi.org/10.5354/rchd.v0i25.52156
