Leyes intempestivas, código penal e imágenes de la simonía

RESUMEN: La superacion del antiguo Regimen se resuelve en un complejo, poliedrico proceso pleno de facetas y aristas. La legislacion contra el crimen de simonia, verbigracia, penetra en el siglo XIX sostenida aun dentro del ordenamiento espanol; por supuesto, la tendencia laicizadora que caracteristicamente opera en el proceso codificador supondra el retraimiento en su represion, pero de alguna manera, entre tradicion y reformismo, su objeto quintaesenciado va a buscar otras formas acreedoras al interes punitivo del Estado liberal: los nombramientos ilegales mediante cohecho. ABSTRACT: the overcoming of the Old Regime is resolved in a complex, polyhedral process full of facets and edges. the legislation against the crime of simony, for example, penetrates into the 19th century still sustained within the Spanish legal system; of course, the laicizing tendency that characteristically operates in the codifying process will suppose the retreat in its repression, but in some way, between tradition and reformism, its quintessential object was going to look for other forms that are worthy of the punitive interest of the liberal State: illegal appointments through bribery.