Talk:Catalonia/@comment-4614613-20171102183557/@comment-26247925-20171102191224

''After four years of deliberations, the Constitutional Court of Spain assessed the constitutionality of the challenged articles and its binding assessment was released on June 28 of 2010. By a 6 to 4 majority, the Court's justices rewrote 14 articles and dictated the interpretation for 27 more, mainly relating to language, justice and fiscal policy. The judgement reassured that the term "nation" used in the preamble has no legal standing. It also abolished all the mechanisms that had been put in place to minimize the distortionary effects of the existing Spanish tax and transfer system.The legitimacy of the decision has been widely questioned in Catalonia: the term of three of the twelve members of the Court had already expired when a decision had been made; a fourth member had died and the Spanish Parliament had not appointed any successor.'''

Considering this, I can't blame them for wanting independence. Considering how badly Spain wants to keep itself together, they were never going to get those powers back, and Spain essentially gave the pro-independence Catalans fuel for their own propaganda.