International relation

Decrees of new plant and purpose of the Councils: Felipe V won the Nueva Planta decrees as a set of arrangements to get to impose political and administrative organization of Castile to the territories of the Crown of Aragon, so he created a model in Spain uniformity and centralized (with the exception of Navarra and Basque Country) disappear outside the territories of the Crown of Aragon, also abolished the Courts of integrating the different kingdoms of Castile in the later form the Cortes of Spain, and finally was used to abolish the Council of Aragon and it took the Council of Castile. So the Crown of Aragon, by not supporting the king Felipe V in the War of Succession (1700-1713), lost most of their privileges and charters, and also imposed with the arrival of the Bourbons in the whole Spanish political model of absolutism. With New Plant Orders institutions disappeared (Cortes, Provincial, Justice) and outside the realms of the Crown of Aragon. Only the Basque Country, Navarra and the Aran Valley, true to the cause of Philip, remain intact. The decree establishes a single administration that integrates finance, a Council of Castilla serving as the government of the country, a unique Courts of the Kingdom, the use of Castilian as the language of

administration, the extent of the Castilian civil kingdoms, homogeneous territorial administration divided the kingdom into provinces, a single currency, the extension of the possibility of trading with America to Mediterranean ports and free access to public office by the citizens throughout the state regardless of geographical origin. • Policy-More than any institution stood the power of the monarch, who was assisted by lasSecretarías. The secretaries were appointed and dismissed by the king and were accountable only to him. To achieve its mission, the secretaries were assisted by officials responsible for implementing lasórdenes the king and government control. • Territory-The Bourbon viceroys removed (except the Americans) and crearondemacraciones provincial general governed by captains with military powers, as administrative and judicial hearings presided over the Royals. Finally became widespread, the government of the major cities, the institution of the magistrates castellanos. • Tax-The new management realized that it was imperative that all residents should pay in relation to their wealth, including the privileged (nobility and clergy) . Building on the right of conquest in the territories of the Crown of Aragon established a quota.