# The Reign in Spain is Mainly Giving me a Pain

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**Created:** [November 24, 2001, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-in-spain-is-mainly-giving-me-a-pain/95058 "2001-11-24T20:20:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-in-spain-is-mainly-giving-me-a-pain/95058/81 "2001-11-30T03:32:41Z")

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Well, but the examples I provided were not only found constitutional, but at the time they were found to be constitutional, they were also democratically popular. To answer your question “What’s left?”, I don’t know. It made me think of this speech by Seward, though, for some reason:

[http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/seward.htm](http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/seward.htm)

At any rate, ultimately, extradition is a Spanish (or French, or German) decision to make. They captured and are holding the prisoners, and so those states have a responsibility to their laws and their values that these prisoners be treated according to the values they hold.

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