AHC: More conservitive Spain

Challenge: Have the Spanish empire remain religiously conservative, with Church having great influence and power, and have the Spanish Inquisition still exist.
 
Wasn't Spain pretty conservative at least end of Franco's regime? And I think that it was one of most conservative European countries always to 2000's.
 
Wasn't Spain pretty conservative at least end of Franco's regime? And I think that it was one of most conservative European countries always to 2000's.
they were pretty liberal during the Second Republic, anarchist communes and free love liberal, But that was more than anything a reaction on the Previous centuries conservatism, And get really liberal after the death of Franco.

I assume he is Asking before 1900, so the point stand, Before the Early 20 century, and during the Franco Government, Spain, was really conservative, so I don´t understand what is the Challenge
 
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they were pretty liberal during the Second Republic, anarchist communes and free love liberal, But that was more than anything a reaction on the Previous centuries conservatism, And get really liberal after the death of Franco.

I assume he is Asking before 1900, so the point stand, Before the Early 20 century, and during the Franco Government Spain, was really conservative, so I don´t understand what is the Challenge

I guess something that makes the Black Legend look tame in comparison?
 
Preventing the confiscation of the mortmains is probably a key factor here. Keep large areas of the countryside dependent on the Church economically and weaken the financial basis of the State, and it will be obliged by financial/infrastructural realities to defuse more power to the clergy (in particular, allowing them to maintain a virtual monopoly on education) and likely work out a deal in order to make them a partner with the State in order to fufill its obligations as international expectations of expected services to the citizendry grow. This, of course, ties Catholic morality/doctrine into State policy, which produces a more conservative popular opinion and weakens the relative importance of secular/liberal forces in a self-feeding cycle.

Of course, this assumes Spain can keep its economy from falling under forgien domination/international commerce. Perhaps as a result of the Catholic Church developing under this alternative perception of economy responsability into havinig its own corperate-economic wing, particularly in Latin America? A "Compassionate Capitalist" model growing up in parallel to Smithsonian economics?
 
I assume he is Asking before 1900, so the point stand, Before the Early 20 century, and during the Franco Government, Spain, was really conservative, so I don´t understand what is the Challenge

I asking that they’re so conservative that they are influenced by the Church and still have a Spanish Inquisition. One possibility is to have the Carlists win the first War
 
I asking that they’re so conservative that they are influenced by the Church and still have a Spanish Inquisition. One possibility is to have the Carlists win the first War

You'd be better served by just having no Pragmatic Succession and just having Don Carlos take the throne peacefully. Even if they win a civil war, realistically that's going to shake the legitimacy and stability of the throne rather substantially.
 
You'd be better served by just having no Pragmatic Succession and just having Don Carlos take the throne peacefully. Even if they win a civil war, realistically that's going to shake the legitimacy and stability of the throne rather substantially.
This is correct. Carlos could be forced to at minimum purge the military of Liberal Spanish officers in order to stay in power. That could cripple the military for years. It could be even worse if he gets the throne as a result of civil war.
 
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