Salvador Minguijón Adrián

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Juan Salvador Minguijón Adrián was descendant to an Aragonese family of petty officials and artisans. His paternal ancestors originated from the village of Terrer in South-Western Aragon, where Salvador's grandfather worked as a primary school teacher;Juan Francisco Baltar Rodriguez, Minguijón y Adrián, Juan Salvador (1874–1959), [in:] Diccionario de catedráticos españoles de derecho online, 2014, available [http://portal.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/instituto_figuerola/programas/phu/diccionariodecatedraticos/lcatedraticos/jsminguijon here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603034124/http://portal.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/instituto_figuerola/programas/phu/diccionariodecatedraticos/lcatedraticos/jsminguijon |date=2016-06-03 }} his son and Salvador's father, Jorge Minguijón CachoLa Unión Católica 21.05.90, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0004878726&page=3 here] (died 1895),El Movimiento Católico 31.12.95, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0025558333&page=7 here] was a local administrative clerk.Baltar Rodriguez 2014 At unspecified date he married María Antonia Adrián Martínez, herself from the nearby Calatayud. Her family originated from Visiedo in another Aragonese province of Teruel;though they lived in Calatayud, Baltar Rodriguez 2014 Salvador's maternal grandfather worked as a carpenter.Baltar Rodriguez 2014 The couple had at least two sons, though exact number of their children is not clear.

Salvador and his brother were raised in a profoundly religious ambience; his father was a local Catholic activistLa Unión Católica 21.05.90 and his brother was to become a friar.El Salmantino 05.09.17, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=5041979&presentacion=pagina here] Following his childhood spent in Calatayud, the young Salvador entered a diocesan seminary in Zaragoza, a path typically leading to a career of a priest or a school teacher.Gonzalo Díaz Díaz, Minguijón Adrián, Salvador, [in:] Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española, vol 5, Madrid 1995, {{ISBN|9788400075040}}, p. 529 Having completed the schooling at unspecified time he enrolled at Universidad de Zaragoza, commencing learning at the faculty of {{Lang|es|Filosofía y Letras|italic=no}}, where he completed the curriculum and graduated in 1896.Juan Francisco Baltar Rodriguez, Los ejercisios de oposiciones a profesor auxiliar de Salvador Minguijón, [in:] European Journal of Legal History 10 (2013), p. 72 He then moved to Madrid to pursue studies in law at Universidad Central; having been awarded a Cum Laude diploma in 1900, Minguijón continued with doctoral research.Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 72

In 1903 Minguijón commenced the career of a lawyer becoming a notary in Sabiñán, a municipality in the {{Lang|es|comarca}} of Calatayud. In 1905 he switched to the same role in Brea, a slightly larger location in the comarca of Aranda,Díaz Díaz 1995, p. 529 where he probably practiced very shortly as he soon commenced academic duties in Zaragoza. In 1906 Minguijón obtained PhD laurels in Madrid; his thesis, titled {{Lang|es|La responsabilidad civil extracontractual}}, was considered excellent by the jury.Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 72

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At unspecified time Salvador Minguijón married Ana-María Paraíso Ferruz;ABC 12.07.35, available [http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1935/07/12/055.html here] none of the sources consulted provides any information on his wife. The couple had four children: Carmen, Agustín, María Luisa and María Antonia.ABC 12.05.35 The family lived in Zaragoza, though in the mid-1930s they moved to Madrid.Díaz Díaz 1995, p. 530 Minguijón spent his declining years alone: his brother died in 1917,El Salmantino 05.09.17 his wife widowed him middle-aged in 1935,ABC 12.07.35 one daughter became a Discalced Carmelitan nun and has never left the monastery, the only son, a leading activist of Asociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas,José Luis Orella Martínez, El origen del primer Catolicismo social Español [PhD thesis, Universidad de Educación a Distancia], Madrid 2012, p. 429 was executed by the Republicans in Paracuellos de Jarama in 1936,Agustín Minguijón Paraíso (1907–1936) [in:] Asociacion Catolica de Progapandistas service, available [http://www.acdp.es/agustin-minguijon-paraiso-1907-1936/ here]; there is a monograph dedicated to Minguijón Paraíso, see José Vicente Rodríguez, Le troncharon en la flor de la vida. Agustín Minguijón Paraíso. Datos biográficos y martirios (1907–1936), Zaragoza 2009, {{ISBN|9788483532454}} while another daughter died in the mid-1940s.referred after Rafael Gambra, Aspectos del pensamiento de Salvador Minguijón, [in:] Revista international de sociologia 67 (1959), p. 85; it is not clear what happened to his third daughter Minguijón died in Zaragoza,Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 72 en route to his usual summer holiday location in Irún.Baltar Rodriguez 2014

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In 1904–1905 Minguijón applied to a number of secondary education institutions in Zaragoza, but his bids for chairs of geography,chairs of geografía descriptiva general de Europa y de España in Instituto de Mahón (Zaragoza) and Instituto de Baeza (Zaragoza) history,chairs of historia de España e historia universal in Instituto de Mahón and Instituto de Baeza letters,lengua y literatura castellana in Instituto de Baeza Latinchairs of Latin language in Instituto de Canarias (Zaragoza) and in Instituto de Figueras (Zaragoza) and lawchair of psicología, lógica, ética y rudimentos de Derecho in Instituto de Teruel (Zaragoza) proved unsuccessful.Baltar Rodriguez 2014 In 1905 he was accepted at temporary unpaid job of professor {{Lang|es|auxiliar}} at Facultad de Derecho of the University of Zaragoza;Baltar Rodriguez 2013, pp. 72–73 the same year he defeated five counter-candidates and won the contest for professor {{Lang|es|auxiliar interino retribuido del segundo grupo}},detailed discussion of academic contest in Baltar Rodriguez 2013, pp. 71–87 assuming regular teaching duties in 1906. In 1907 he was promoted to professor {{Lang|es|auxiliar numerario de segundo grupo}}.Baltar Rodriguez 2014 The same year he filled the vacancy in {{Lang|es|Historia General del Derecho Español}} as assistant professor.Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 73 In 1910 he applied for {{Lang|es|Historia General del Derecho}} in Universidad de Valladolid, but it is not clear whether he took part in the usual contest for the job.Baltar Rodriguez 2014 In 1911 he emerged victorious from the contest for chair of {{Lang|es|Historia General del Derecho}} in Zaragoza, thus terminating the period of junior assignments and assuming a major academic position.Díaz Díaz 1995, p. 529, Baltar Rodriguez 2014, p. 72

Minguijón served as head of history of law in Zaragoza for close to the following quarter of a century, his position in the national realm of jurisprudence scholars enhanced following the publication of a series of textbooks in the 1910s, and especially his major work, {{Lang|es|Historia del Derecho Español}}, issued in 1927. From the mid-1910s he was invited to be a jury member in contests for academic chairs, held across Spain.Facultad de Derecho de Santiago de Compostela (1915) and cátedra de Historia del Derecho de la Universidad de Murcia (1919), Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 73 In the early 1930s he was already a distinguished law academic, known beyond the scientific milieu thanks to his numerous press contributions. Minguijón's juridical career was crowned in 1933, when he was elected as an academic nominee to Tribunal de Garantías Constitucionales, the Spanish constitutional court.Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 72 The year marked also his departure from Zaragoza; he had to abandon the university chair as the new job required his presence in Madrid.

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Minguijón formally resigned from the anyway defunct Tribunal in September 1936; he returned to Zaragoza and resumed his university dutiesBaltar Rodriguez 2013, pp. 72–73 until in 1938Minguijón y Adrián, Juan Salvador [in:] Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa online, available [http://www.enciclopedia-aragonesa.com/voz.asp?voz_id=8834 here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808103046/http://www.enciclopedia-aragonesa.com/voz.asp?voz_id=8834 |date=2016-08-08 }} he was appointed to the new Francoist high court, Tribunal Supremo.Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 72 Back in Madrid, in the early 1940s he chaired {{Lang|es|historia del derecho}} and {{Lang|es|sociología}} at Universidad Central.Díaz Díaz 1995, p. 530 In 1940 he entered the very elite of Spanish academics, becoming a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas.Baltar Rodriguez 2013, pp. 73 Minguijón resigned from all academic and official duties upon reaching the regular retirement age in 1944.Baltar Rodriguez 2014 Already in the 1930s he used to collaborate with semi-scholarly institutions, notably giving lectures at Ateneo de Madrid.Gambra 1959, pp. 82–85 This activity gained momentum following his retirement, especially as he became vice-president of the 1943-established Instituto Balmes de Sociología.Jesús Tobío Fernández, Salvador Minguijón Adrián, [in:] Arbor 44 (1959), p. 217 Already in the early 1940s he engaged in works of Institución Fernando el Católico of Zaragoza.Baltar Rodriguez 2014 In 1944 he became one of the moving spirits behind the Madrid Colegio de Aragón, set up by IFC as means of sustaining an Aragon identity,Gustavo Alares López, Severino Aznar y el Colegio de Aragón (1945–1959), Zaragoza 2013, {{ISBN|9788499112657}}, p. 39 scaling down his engagement after 1953.he was last noted as taking part in regular meeting in 1953, Alares López 2013, p. 267, for later years see Alares López 2013, p. 268 and onwards

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Minguijón's written heritage is one major work, around 20 booklets, tens of scientific articles and hundreds of press items. In terms of topics, his opus is described by a present-day-scholar as multi-faceted.Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 72 It may be roughly divided into four groups: jurisprudence, political thought, social sciences and ongoing public issues.

His most recognized works are those dealing with history of law. From 1911 to the early 1920s Minguijón published booklets formatted as textbooks for students, completed as a 12-volume series titled {{Lang|es|Elementos de historia del derecho español}};Baltar Rodriguez 2014 apart from the synthesis and update of earlier works they were heavily based on own research, related in particular to medieval and foral Spanish legislation.Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 74 The series was the basis for a massive monograph, {{Lang|es|Historia del derecho español}} (1927), the 500-page work which gained Minguijón his name and scientific posture. Re-issued in several editions, until the mid-1950s it served as an academic manual for generations of Spanish students.Baltar Rodriguez 2014

Minguijón's works on political thought were formatted mostly as pamphlets and booklets hardly exceeding 100 pages. The best known one, having been also chronologically the first, was {{Lang|es|La crisis del tradicionalismo en España}} (1914), a lecture of the author's understanding of Traditionalism and its role in Spain of the era; it elevated the author to a prominent though controversial position within Carlism. It was followed by {{Lang|es|Humanismo y nacionalidad}} (1929), {{Lang|es|Al servicio de la Tradición}} (1930), {{Lang|es|La crisis de la libertad}} (1934), {{Lang|es|La Democracia}} (1934) and {{Lang|es|Los apologistas del siglo II}} (1936), all of them marking an attempt to transform Traditionalist outlook into a modern Christian doctrine.he also father minor works, often focusing on specific individuals like Baltasar Gracián, Antonio Maura, Juan Moneva, see e.g. El sentido de la vida en la obras de Gracián [in:] Baltasar Gracián escritor aragonés del s. XVII, Zaragoza 1926

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Minguijón's interest in social issues gradually developed into a hybrid in-between the science of sociology and theories of addressing social problems. It was first demonstrated in {{Lang|es|Las luchas del periodismo}} (1908), a discussion of social obligations of the press,the work despised subordination of intellectuals to the rule of capital, José Manuel Gonzalez Torga, Fenomenologia de los confidenciales como modalidad del periodismo [PhD thesis Complutense], Madrid 1994, p. 452 followed by {{Lang|es|Hombres e ideas. Estudios sociales}} (1910), {{Lang|es|Propiedad y trabajo}} (1920), {{Lang|es|La función social de la propiedad}} (1930) and {{Lang|es|La Propiedad}} (1935) and combined with numerous articles in specialized reviews.especially Revista Católica de las cuestiones sociales; the periodical he contributed to from 1911 to 1930. Compare also Sobre el objeto de la sociología, [in:] Revista Internacional de Sociología 4/6 (1943–1944), La Cuestión de Progreso [in:] Revista Internacional de Sociología, 8–9 (1944–1945), Vulgarización Sociológica, Opinión y Masa [in:] Revista Internacional de Sociología 19 (1947) Some works fall rather into philosophy, as Minguijón strove to present a general background of Christian thought; they are either a handful of minor works published for a limited audiencesee e.g. Lo racional y lo irracional en el mundo físico [in:] Arbor 9 (1945), En torno al Espacio [in:] Segunda Reunión de Aproximación Filosófico-Científica, Zaragoza 1959, En torno a la Materia [in:] La Materia: III Reunión de Aproximación Filosófico-Científica',' Zaragoza 1961, La obra social de Costa, Zaragoza 1926 or translations from German.Minguijón translated two works of Martin Grabmann: Filosofía medieval (1928) and Santo Tomás de Aquino (1930), and one of Robert F. Arnold, Cultura del Renacimiento'' (1928)

A numerically dominant group of Minguijón's writings are his press contributions, usually some 800-word commentaries dealing with ongoing public affairs. Far from partisan zeal and styled as impartial essays, within a wide public discourse they gained Minguijón recognition as a pundit. Starting in the early 1910s, he began to contribute to Catholic dailies across the country.like Heraldo Alaves, El Salmantino, Diario de Valencia, La Gaceta de Tenerife, Diario de Alicante or Diario de Reus However, he was particularly active writing to El Debate and emerged as a key commentator of the Madrid daily. As during the Republic years {{Lang|es|El Debate}} became a semi-official CEDA mouthpiece; Minguijón, at that time member of the supreme national court, preferred to publish rather in various regional Catholic periodicals.Region, El bien publico, Heraldo de Almeria, El dia de Palencia, Labor, La Gaceta de Tenerife and others During the Civil War and afterwards he did not resume his career as a press pundit.

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The political preferences of Minguijón's father are not entirely clear, though he is known to have at least sympathized with Carlism.La Regeneración 09.12.69, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0026688647&page=1 here] A "Salvador Minguijón" from Calatayud was noted as signing a loyalist Carlist address in 1886,El Cabecilla 04.12.89, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0003848511&page=3 here] but for the first time he can be surely identified assuming public activity in 1897, taking part in local ecclesiastical educational initiatives.La Voz de la Provincia 03.04.97, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=2&path=2295057&presentacion=pagina here] He followed an apparent {{Lang|es|periodista}} zeal: in 1908 he took part in a Catholic {{Lang|es|Asamblea Nacional de Buena Prensa}},El Día de Palencia 30.09.08, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=2191179&presentacion=pagina here] while in the 1910s co-founded and periodically managed socially minded Catholic periodicals, {{Lang|es|La paz social}},Díaz Díaz 1995, p. 530, Sergio Fernández Riquelme, Sociología, corporativismo y política social en España [PhD thesis Universidad de Murcia], Murcia 2008, p. 214. In 1913 he travelled across Europe to see the nascent Christian-Democratic initiatives first-hand, Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 73 {{Lang|es|El Noticiero}}Díaz Díaz 1995, p. 530 and {{Lang|es|El Pilar}}.La Correspondencia de España 14.01.10, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0000610641&page=4 here] His Carlist leaning was reinforced at the university; in the early 20th century the Zaragoza Law Faculty was dominated by Jaimistas from the Comín dynasty.Bienvenido Comín Sarté and Pascual Comín Moya However, he was not noted as active within the Carlist realm until publication of {{Lang|es|La crisis del tradicionalismo en España}} in 1914.he is not a single time mentioned in a lengthy study on marques de Cerralbo, the most complete recent scholarly history of Carlism between the 1880s and 1910s, see Agustín Fernández Escudero, El marqués de Cerralbo (1845–1922): biografía politica [PhD thesis], Madrid 2012

{{Lang|es|La crisis}} claimed that Traditionalist dogma was perfectly valid, though it had to be renewed and its application re-defined; Minguijón viewed it not as a fixed set of principles, but as an adaptive approach to problems of human civilization.Gambra 1959, p. 86 The practical conclusion was that the Carlists should seek alliance with all political forces sharing the same lowest common denominator. He advocated rapprochement with the Integrists, with Lliga Regionalista and with the Mauristas. Indeed, some claim that he subscribed to a {{Lang|es|modelo maurrasiano}}, a new counter-revolutionary movementFernández Riquelme 2008, p. 204 exploring parliamentary opportunities to build a confessional, corporative and regional state;Fernández Riquelme 2008, p. 197 others underline inspiration by the concept of Catholic unity, launched by ACNDP and pursued by its freshly set-up daily, {{Lang|es|El Debate}}.Orella Martínez 2012, pp. 106, 115 The alliance implied that the Carlists should soften their approach to Catalanism, up to recognition of separate Catalan legislation and administration,Jacek Bartyzel, Umierać ale powoli, Kraków 2002, {{ISBN|8386225742}}, p. 288, Orella Martínez 2012, p. 123 and park their dynastical claims.Bartyzel 2002, p. 288 Some scholars consider Minguijón's strategy a reference to Sexenio Democrático, when Carlism served as agglutinatory factor for conservative forces;Jordi Canal, El carlismo, Madrid 2000, {{ISBN|8420639478}}, p. 267 it was supposed to lay path for peaceful transformation of liberal monarchy into a traditionalist one.Juan Ramón de Andrés Martín, El cisma mellista. Historia de una ambición política, Madrid 2000, {{ISBN|9788487863820}}, p. 83 The strategy presented was dubbed {{Lang|es|minimismo}}Canal 2000, p. 267, Andrés Martín 2000, pp. 83, 247, 248 or {{Lang|es|minimismo tradicionalista}}.José Andrés Gallego, Antón M. Pazos (eds.), Archivo Gomá: Febrero de 1937, Madrid 2001, {{ISBN|9788400080570}}, p. 353

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Within Carlism Minguijón's proposal was appreciated as an elaborate and genuine attempt to revitalize the movement, though critics pointed out that it would be another version of Pidalismo,Bartyzel 2002, p. 288 an opportunist amalgamation of Traditionalism within a broad conservative spectrum. They lambasted it as {{Lang|es|reducción grave y transcendental de las bases más esenciales de nuestra Comunión}}("a serious and transcendental reduction of the most essential foundations of our Communion")opinion of Mariano Fortuny, quoted after Canal 2000, p. 268, see also Andrés Martín 2000, p. 83 and an amputation of Carlism.Andrés Martín 2000, p. 83 Skeptics offered a competitive diagnosis, namely that the crisis of Carlism was caused by the deadly virus of parliamentarism.Andrés Martín 2000, p. 84 Following a period of hesitation, in 1915 Minimismo was eventually disavowed by the claimant Don Jaime, who confirmed intransigence on dynastical issues and permitted at best a neutral approach towards the moderate Catalanism of La Lliga.Bartyzel 2002, p. 288; opposite view in Andrés Martín 2000, p. 84, namely that Don Jaime himself reduced dynastic thread to secondary position

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In the 1910s Carlism was dominated by a conflict between the claimant and the key party theorist, Juan Vázquez de Mella. At first glance Minimismo and Mellismo seemed alike: both favored parking dynastical issues and forging a grand, Traditionalism-centred right-wing alliance. However, scholars differ when discussing the mutual position of the two concepts. Some name Minguijón a key protagonist of {{Lang|es|sector promellista}}, highlighting their shared penchant for a conservative bloc;Andrés Martín 2000, p. 83 others note rather that Minguijón followed de Mella by firmly incorporating the social dimension into the doctrine.Fernández Riquelme 2008, p. 197 Some students, however, suggest that Minguijón opposed {{Lang|es|catastrofismo mellista}} by working towards a constructive solution.Canal 2000, p. 267 They highlight that Minguijón seemed inclined towards politics within the Alfonsist framework,e.g. when courted by Angel Ossorio y Gallardo in 1914 while de Mella adopted a decisively anti-system stance with no dynastical commitments.Fernández Riquelme 2008, p. 337 One more difference was that unlike a fiercely Germanophile de Mella, during the Great War Minguijón adopted a pro-Entente stand and even considered setting up a pro-French daily.Andrés Martín 2000, pp. 127–8

When the crisis climaxed in 1919 and the Mellistas broke away to build their own grouping, Minguijón maintained loyalty to Don Jaime. According to some sources he remained influential enough to enforce – together with Francisco Melgar – resignation of Pascual Comín y Moya from the temporary Carlist leadership. However, his days in the movement were already numbered. Together with a group of socially-minded Zaragoza scholars he had been co-operating with for more than a decade, especially Severino Aznar and Inocencio Jiménez,though periodically also with Maximiliano Arboleya, José Calvo Sotelo or Reig Genovés in 1919 he co-founded {{Lang|es|Grupo de Democracía Cristiana|italic=no}}, an organization under the auspices of cardinal Guiasola.Fernández Riquelme 2008, pp. 218–9, Orella Martínez 2012, p. 190 Though technically it did not constitute a breach of loyalty towards the Carlist king, Minguijón concluded that Carlism was no longer offering a viable solution. He confirmed his commitment to Traditionalist values, but in terms of political strategy he perceived Carlism as a dead-end: Don Jaime was deprived of descendants and acting as a party leader rather than as a king,Andrés Martín 2000, p. 204 while the movement trapped in dynastical intransigence was deprived of any allies.Andrés Martín 2000, pp. 202–3 Determined to seek broad partnership on a minimalist basis, Minguijón left Jaimismo in 1920.Canal 2000, p. 279, Andrés Martín 2000, p. 202

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In 1922 Minguijón co-issuedwith Inocencio Jimenez and conde de Valldellano, Andrés Martín 2000, p. 231 a manifesto launching Partido Social Popular;Andrés Martín 2000, pp. 232–2 he was among the Zaragoza socially-minded theorists,dubbed "grupo coordinador de Zaragoza", including also Inocencio Jimenez and Genaro Poza, Fernández Riquelme 2008, p. 221, Alares López 2013, p. 20. On catolicismo social in Aragón, see Eloy Fernández Clemente, Carlos Forcadell, Los orígenes del catolicismo social (1890–1910), [in:] Aragón Contemporáneo. Estudios, Zaragoza 1986, pp. 79–188, José Estarán Molinero, Catolicismo social en Aragón (1878–1901), Zaragoza 2001, his also Cien años de «Acción Social Católica de Zaragoza» (1903–2003), Zaragoza 2003 one of six streams which merged in the new organization.formed also by tradicionalismo mellista, izquierda maurista, ACNDP and the Catholics; Fernández Riquelme 2008, pp. 220–1 The party, inspired by social encyclical of Leo XIII,Martin Blinkhorn, Carlism and Crisis in Spain 1931–1939, Cambridge 2008, {{ISBN|9780521207294}}, p. 36 is considered the first Spanish incarnation of Christian Democracy; Minguijón co-authored its {{Lang|es|Programa mínimo}} and enthusiastically advocated its broad platform as allegedly deprived of sectarian particularism;Andrés Martín 2000, p. 233-4 the party focus was on social issues tackled within a broad Catholic perspective.the Carlist political leader, marqués de Villores, issued a warning preventing the Carlists from assisting PSP; the party was referred to as recurrence of Pidalismo, Canal 2000, p.279 In PSP Minguijón remained one of the key theorists, though the party was by no means short of them, having in its ranks also Severino Aznar, Manuel Simó Marín, Inocencio Jiménez, Rafael Aizpún, José Ibáñez Martín, José María Gil-Robles, Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo and Víctor Pradera.the project was neither short of vehement enemies, most of them recruited from Integrism-flavored Catholic circles; the key example is El Siglo Futuro and its pundit, Emilio Ruiz Muñoz, compare e.g. Vicente Cárcel Orti, Benedicto XV y el catolicismo social español, [in:] Analecta Sacra Tarraconensia 63-64 (1990), pp. 7-135 The organization, intended as an agglutinatory force beyond a future broad right-wing platform, proved to have been just en episode; like all other political parties it was dissolved by the Primo de Rivera dictatorship in 1923.Baltar Rodriguez 2014

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Shortly after the March on Rome Minguijón defined Fascism as a sane response to social disunity and administrative chaos, the problems haunting Spain as well; though he refrained from endorsing violence and dictatorship, Minguijón noted that also in his country "{{Lang|es|tenemos necesidad de depuración y de disciplina}}" ("We need purification and discipline").El Día de Palencia 02.06.23, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=2202833&presentacion=pagina here] Upon the advent of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship two months later he greeted the developments with cautious optimism;El Debate 26.09.23, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=2285202&presentacion=pagina here] by the end of 1923 the {{Lang|es|pesepistas}} voiced their support for renewal and {{Lang|es|reconstitución}} of political setting. Underlining no support for violence, they hoped for increased social work, making vague references to agrarian reform, syndical liberties, cheap credit, municipal self-government and advanced labor legislation.El Debate 29.12.23, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=3&path=2285445&presentacion=pagina here]

Many former PSP members, most notably Víctor Pradera, emerged as key theorists behind the {{Lang|es|primoderiverista}} regime; however, Minguijón was not visible in the front row of its supporters. He focused mostly on quasi-political work adhering to the Christian-Democratic format, at that time championed mostly by {{Lang|es|Asociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas|italic=no}}. In 1923–1926 he engaged in {{Lang|es|Círculo de Estudios|italic=no}}, a think-tank born out of ACNDP,Orella Martínez 2012, p. 300 giving lectures on social and political issues as well as publishing articles in specialized reviews. Many of them focused on his favorite topic, the question of property, advancing a thesis that increasing ownership among wide social strata was the best strategy for confronting both poverty and revolution.Orella Martínez 2012, p. 309 In 1926 he engaged in building Organización Corporativa Nacional, the nationwide labor organization, by scholars counted among the representatives of {{Lang|es|tradicionalismo mellista}}.Fernández Riquelme 2008, p. 279

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In the late 1920s Minguijón was active discussing structure and composition of the new state diet. Acknowledging that the freshly formed Asamblea Consultiva was merely a stepping stone towards the ultimate {{Lang|es|Asamblea Nacional|italic=no}}, he fully agreed with its corporative format, in line with the theory of organic democracy. Engaging in polemics with other theorists like Ossorio y Gallardo, he discussed rather components of the parliament, advocating a slightly larger granularity of its structure.Mariano García Canales, La teoría de la representación en la España del siglo XX: (de la crisis de la restauración a 1936), Madrid 1977, {{ISBN|9788460010531}}, p. 101 He himself did not emerge as a major Unión Patriótica officialit is known only that he closely co-operated with UP, Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 73 and was not appointed to the quasi-parliament; it is not clear whether, except relations with Pradera, he had access to Primo or any of the key decision-makers of the regime. The tone of Minguijón's editorials, though never enthusiastic, cooled down over time; those from the late 1920s and 1930 are increasingly escapist. They discuss foreign policy, history, ideas, law, great personalities etc., but tend to evade current issues. They remain firm, however, in support of Catholic trade unionsBoletín de Acción Social December 1928, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=9&path=1000167175&forma=&presentacion=pagina here] and Catholic social thought,La Tierra 15.08.29, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=9&path=5015738&forma=&presentacion=pagina here] as well as in opposition to violence.also from the right; for Minguijón's anxiety related to violence of Legionarios de Albiñana see La Voz 04.12.30, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=9&path=2008513&presentacion=pagina here]

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Upon the advent of the Second Spanish Republic, Minguijón did not join any political party and adopted the position of an observer. In the spring of 1931 his press commentaries maintained an abstract, Aesopian language.e.g. on May 7, 1931, in one of his very first commentaries after the fall of the monarchy, Minguijón discussed a manifesto of Liga de Unión Latina in Paris, see Las Provincias 07.05.31, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=15&path=1000319212&presentacion=pagina here] In the months and years to come Minguijón assumed a more specific stance; though he declared himself a monarchist (with an increasingly Alfonsist penchant),Labor 29.08.35, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=2&path=3028826&presentacion=pagina here] at the same time he advocated constructive work under the republican regime.Labor 07.03.35, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=2&path=3028748&presentacion=pagina here] His focus was invariably on social issues and the question of property.he compared agrarian reform to building a railway line across private property: you have to sacrifice individual good for common good; Labor 15.04.35, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=2&path=3028761&presentacion=pagina here] Lambasting elitism"¿Es que la nobleza existía verdaderamente entre nosotros ? ¿Es que desempeñaba una verdadera función social de dirección, de guía, de patronato? Ni lucha, ni estudio, ni sacrificio, ni preocupación por los problemas de nuestro tiempo. Deportes, apuestas, cuadras con hermosos caballos de carrera, Gran Peña, fiestas fastuosas, tertulias, amistades con algún astro de la torería, Monte-Cristo, Kasabal, frivolidad, vicio, incomprensión; de todo eso no ha quedado ninguna estela duradera", Acción Española 01.12.32, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0003648988&page=103 here] and the liberal outlookLa ciudad y los campos 19.05.34, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=2165735&presentacion=pagina here] he called for the common good to take precedence over the individual good and formulated his expectations in likewise spirit;Heraldo de Almería 17.11.31, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=2126648&presentacion=pagina here] in practical terms, they centred on agrarian reformRegíon 26.07.31, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=3&path=1000254696&presentacion=pagina here] and tackling unemployment.La Gaceta de Tenerife 16.02.34, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=5048595&presentacion=pagina here] All the above stemmed from Catholic and not socialist principles; Minguijón firmly voiced against divorceEl Día de Palencia 06.11.31, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=2202028&presentacion=pagina here] and called for a civilization based on a rural, traditional basis,Labor 15.04.35, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=2&path=3028761&presentacion=pagina here]; according to Minguijón, translation to urban milieu deprived rural masses of tradition and values Labor 09.03.36, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=5&path=3028640&presentacion=pagina here]; though he did not declare himself alarmed by the separation of state and church.Región 19.06.31, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=3&path=1000254312&presentacion=pagina here]

Though in favor of common spirit, Minguijón opposed a dictatorship of the majorityEl Día de Palencia 11.03.32, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=2199714&presentacion=pagina here] and acknowledged the anti-democratic tide overwhelming Europe as a "crisis of liberty"; he compared Fascist, Nazi and Soviet regimes using the word {{Lang|es|totalitario}}, though he also distinguished between them.ABC 22.10.33, available [http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1933/10/22/046.html here] Denying Fascist identity, he admitted the superiority of the Italian system – respectful to religious and secular tradition – compared to the Soviet one,El Día de Palencia 31.01.36, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=2199362&presentacion=pagina here] praising also Piłsudski for stopping bolshevism in 1920 and Hitler for preventing a Bolshevik revolution in 1933.La Cruz 30.11.35, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=3053578&presentacion=pagina here] Minguijón denounced the Spanish revolutionaryhe denounced every revolution as chaotic bloodbath, Labor 20.06.35, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=2&path=3028791&presentacion=pagina here] Left as inventing a Fascist menace but offering the same totalitarian solution;La Gaceta de Tenerife 01.08.35, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=8&path=5048913&presentacion=pagina here] his own preference was for the Salazar regime."a nuestro lado tenemos una nación que ha salido de la anarquía y que lentamente se va reconstituyendo. Esta nacion no tiene un Mussolini, tiene un Oliveira Salazar", Correo de Tortosa 05.07.34

In 1933 Minguijón co-founded a Zaragoza-based {{Lang|es|Centro de Estudios Sociales|italic=no}}, born out of ACNDP and formatted as an Aragon version of the Madrid-based Instituto Social Obrero;Orella Martínez 2012, p. 413 he published in periodicals issued by both think-tanks.Orella Martínez 2012, p. 458 He remained active in the Christian-Democratic realm, taking part in various international congresses.Universalità e cultura nel pensiero di Luigi Sturzo, Roma 2001, {{ISBN|9788849800937}}, p. 356 Politically he drew closer to CEDA;Baltar Rodriguez 2014 it was thanks to its votes, combined with support from other right-wing groupings, that in October 1933 Minguijón was elected – according to some authors as {{Lang|es|tradicionalista}}Roberto Villa García, Las elecciones de 1933 en el País Vasco y Navarra, Madrid 2007, {{ISBN|9788498491159}}, p. 29 – to {{Lang|es|Tribunal de Garantías Constitucionales|italic=no}},Baltar Rodriguez 2014 a 35-member body acting as the Republic's constitutional court.

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Gaining seat in the Tribunal suspended Minguijón's university career, enforced his transfer from Zaragoza to Madrid and reduced his activity as a press pundit, though he continued sending commentaries to various periodicals. As constitutional judge Minguijón found himself in an awkward position; the body was entrusted with safeguarding the juridical republican system, while at the same time he was growing increasingly disillusioned with the legal order of the Republic. His struggle was reflected in a highly contested vote on the Catalan Leases Act, known as {{Lang|ca|Llei de Contractes de Conreu}}. The verdict was possibly the key pronouncement of the Tribunal during Minguijón's tenure and pertained to two issues: Catalan autonomy and the social question, the latter related to vineyard tenants’ status. The Tribunal, at that time dominated by conservatively minded judges, decided against the claims of the Catalans and the tenants; Minguijón did not share that opinion and recorded a votum separatum.Joaquim de Camps i Arboix, El parlament de Catalunya, (1932–1936), Barcelona 1976, {{ISBN|9788429711523}}, p. 146, Cristóbal Robles, Cristóbal Robles Muñoz, José María de Urquijo e Ybarra: opinión, religión y poder, Madrid 1997, {{ISBN|9788400076689}}, p 577; for Minguijón's view as justified to the public see La Gaceta de Tenerife 22.07.34, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=1&path=5049024&forma=&presentacion=pagina here]

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The July 1936 coup caught Minguijón during a summer break in Zaragoza. The city was almost immediately captured by the Nationalists and most University professors did not hesitate to voice their enthusiastic support for the rebels.Angel Alcaide Fernández, El apoyo de la Universidad de Zaragoza a la sublevación militar de 1936, [in:] Ignacio Peiró Martín, Guillermo Vicente y Guerrero (eds.), Estudios históricos sobre la Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza 2010, {{ISBN|9788499110479}}, pp. 339–351; he is neither mentioned in Angela Cenarro, La Reina de Hispanidad: fascismo y nacionalcatolicismo en Zaragoza. 1939–1945, [in:] Revista de Historia Jerónimo Zurita 72 (1997), pp. 91–102 Minguijón is not listed either among the most active advocates of the cause or among those engineering purges at the university,Alcaide Fernández 2010, pp. 342–3 though at some point he declared his backing.Carlos Pulpillo Leiva, Orígenes del franquismo: la construcción de la "Nueva España" (1936–1941) [PhD thesis Universidad Rey Juan Carlos], Madrid 2013, p. 85 In September he formally resigned from the anyway defunct Tribunal and resumed teaching at his usual History of Law chair in University of Zaragoza, the role performed for two years until in November 1938 he was nominated to a newly established Nationalist high court, {{Lang|es|Tribunal Supremo|italic=no}}.Baltar Rodriguez 2014. The Tribunal first convened in May 1939 in Madrid, Carlos Jiménez Villarejo, La destrucción del orden republicano (apuntes juridicos), [in:] Hispania Nova 7 (2007), p. 15 Having abandoned Aragón – this time for good – he resumed his role as highest judge and formally contributed to the forging of the Francoist system; until 1950 the Tribunal consisted of appointees deemed utterly loyal and entrusted with juridical institutionalization of the regime.Francisco J. Bastida Freijedo, El pensamiento político del Tribunal Supremo en la Dictadura franquista, [in:] Cronica Popular 20.11.14, available [http://www.cronicapopular.es/2014/11/el-pensamiento-politico-del-tribunal-supremo-en-la-dictadura-franquista/ here]

According to a contemporary scholar, during the Civil War Minguijón was also vital to the forging of the emerging Nationalist ideology.Pulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 60 His part involved contributions to {{Lang|es|Noticiero de España}}, a Burgos-based bulletin issued by {{Lang|es|Servicios de Prensa y Propaganda|italic=no}} and created to disseminate official ideas of the emerging state;Pulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 17 within its editorial board he formed a group dubbed {{Lang|es|juristas}},Pulpillo Leiva 2013, pp. 84–5 considered also representative of "Traditionalists and Church".Pulpillo Leiva 2013, pp. 719–720 There were 63 issues of {{Lang|es|Noticiero}} published during its most prolific phase; there are nine of Minguijón's articles identified, published between May 1938 and August 1939.there are 9 Minguijón's articles identified, published on 28.5.38, 5.8.38, 3.9.38, 17.9.38, 18.2.39, 25.3.39, 29.4.39, 1.7.39, 12.8.39, see Pulpillo Leiva 2013

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Minguijón's role in {{Lang|es|Noticiero}} is described as related mostly to the delegitimization of the Republic.along with Melchor Fernandez Almagro. Pulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 155 Its regime was portrayed as the climax of bolshevization which commenced in Russia in 1917 but manifested itself in Spain in Jaca in 1930, in Asturias in 1934 and following the victory of Frente Popular in 1936;Pulpillo Leiva 2013, pp. 161–2, 170 Minguijón argued that the Republican regime abandoned its own rules,Pulpillo Leiva 2013, pp. 90–91 decomposed into anarchyPulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 205; "el Movimiento nacionalista no se alzó contra un régimen, sino contra la ausencia de régimen, no contra un Gobierno, sino contra la una carencia de Gobierno, no contra una legalidad, sino contra una anarquía", quoted after Pulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 263 and lost legitimacy;thesis laid out in La cuestión española. Legalidad Republicana of February 18, 1939 moreover, it turned against democratic principles and the rising of genuine Spain was necessary,El alzamiento era inevitable, referred after Pulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 173 also to restore them.Pulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 197 He wrote about the Republic with bitterness and visible disappointment, lamenting that the regime was trapped in contradictions: it failed to eradicate the domination of the privileged classes and to introduce reforms based on the will of the people."Una República que se instaura por voluntad del pueblo; unas clases privilegiadas que no se resignan a perder sus privilegios; la República liberal, progresiva, democrática que quiere libertar al pueblo oprimido; los privilegiados que se conjuran contra ella; el Gobierno atacado por los rebeldes; las oligarquías contra la democracia; la fuerza contra el derecho, etc. etc.", quoted after Pulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 241 All these hopes were now laid in the emerging Nationalist state."No hay derecho sino en el Estado y por el Estado. El mundo de la conciencia, los derechos fundamentales de las personas humanas, las afirmaciones del derecho natural, las ideas que se presentan como interiorización de nuestra conciencia de una superrealidad fundamental llamada a dominar las realidades contingentes, todo eso queda suprimido en una concepción tan radicalmente estatista", quoted after Pulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 826 Minguijón's earlier skepticism about Fascism gave way to cautious endorsement; he dubbed earlier comparisons between Fascism and Communism superficialsee his Fascism in Spain, [in:] J. Bayo, Spain, New York 1939, pp. 5–7 and in one of his last articles published in {{Lang|es|Noticiero}}, dated July 1939, he analyzed where Fascism overlapped with Traditionalism, having found six points that both had in common."[1] El fascismo es teísta, es decir, respeta y fomenta los va-lores y las instituciones religiosas. [2] Utilizando las palabras de Henri Mazel de la revista Mercure de France del 15 de septiembre de 1935 co-menta que el fascismo respeta la libertad y la dignidad individual, la propiedad y el ahorro, la familia y la patria, la moral y la religión, insertándose en un orden civiliza-cional. [3] Ideología que se representa como reanudadora de las tra-diciones de la antigua Roma para recuperar la gloria del Imperio antiguo [4] Importante culto a la infancia y a la juventud sobre la que ha de insertarse los valores de la tradición histórica [5] Inculca en la población disciplina de acción prosperidad y orden [6] A la larga también inculca la libertad del individuo pero siempre supeditada, en palabras de Mussolini, a la fe, la disciplina y la tenacidad", Caracteres del fascismo, July 1, 1939, quoted [except numbering, inserted for convenience] after Pulpillo Leiva 2013, pp. 731–732

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Following the Nationalist capture of Madrid, Minguijón settled in the city, where he resumed his academic career in the history of law and at sociology in Universidad Central;Díaz Díaz 1995, p. 530 his teaching influenced the next generation of Traditionalists like Rafael Gambra, who attended Minguijón's lectures and were to gain prominence in the 1960s.Gambra 1959, pp. 82–83 None of the sources consulted provides information on Minguijón's role in {{Lang|es|Tribunal Supremo|italic=no}}; the entire body is known mostly for retroactively reversing many components of the Republican legislation.Jiménez Villarejo 2007, pp. 10, 12, 15, 16, 23 He did not assume any official posts in state administration; he is neither noted as active in political structures, be it Falangist or otherwise. In 1940 he entered the national executive of Acción Católica (AC),Boletin Oficial del Obispado de Orihuela 16.05.40, available [http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?interno=S&posicion=13&path=4001712&presentacion=pagina here] occasionally giving lectures and publishing in AC periodicals.

Having retired from the Tribunal and the university in 1944,Baltar Rodriguez 2014 he focused on various duties in {{Lang|es|Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas|italic=no}}, {{Lang|es|Institución Fernando el Católico|italic=no}}, {{Lang|es|Colegio de Aragón|italic=no}}, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and especially in {{Lang|es|Instituto Balmes de Sociología|italic=no}}, created by CSIC as the brainchild of Severino Aznar.Jesús Ibanez (ed.), Las ciencias sociales en España. Historia inmediata, crítica y perspectivas, vol. 1: Sociología, Madrid 1992, {{ISBN|9788474914061}}, p. 58 Due to his age and health, these activities declined sharply in the early 1950s; his last identified lecture in Real Academia took place in 1951ABC 07.11.51, available [http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1951/11/07/020.html here] and his engagement in Instituto Balmes was loose after 1953.Alares López 2013, p. 267 and onwards

During Francoism Minguijón did not resume his longtime career as a press pundit, limiting himself to scientific and semi-scientific articles in specialized or Catholic reviews.e.g. Criterio, see ABC 15.06.48, available [http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1948/06/15/016.html here] Little is known about his personal views on the developing Francoist system. In the press he was quoted as pursuing his interest in social questions and praising the social institutions of the Nationalist Spain, especially Instituto Nacional de Previsión, for their efficiency, at least compared to the Republican efforts.ABC 01.10.41, available [http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1941/10/01/018.html here] He admitted a Traditionalist outlook,Gambra 1959, p. 86 though he is not recorded as active in any Carlist branch of the time.see e.g. Manuel Martorell Pérez, La continuidad ideológica del carlismo tras la Guerra Civil [PhD thesis in Historia Contemporanea, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia], Valencia 2009 He was recollected as skeptical – also in private – about both democracy and capitalism, deemed anonymous and amorphous forces which should be confronted by {{Lang|es|localismo cultural}}, based on tradition and – inevitably – small property.Gambra 1959, pp. 86–7

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Shortly before death Minguijón was described as a lonely old man, visited by a handful of disciples and few lifelong friends, like Severino Aznar; on the other hand, he remained perfectly lucid, serene, humble, as usual slightly ironic and far from any emphasis. Waking up around mid-day and working late into the night, he was busy writing a treaty tailored as a popularization of great philosophical concepts; it was supposed to amalgamate them within a new vision, intended for the future."vulgarización de las grandes concepciones físicas y filosóficas del presente, tomadas en aquel punto en que coinciden y se completan para darnos una visión nueva del mundo en que vivimos. Una visión que enlaza asimismo la problematice política y social d nuestra época, en sus más profundas raíces", Gambra 1959, pp. 89–90 His death was acknowledged by brief notes in some national newspapers; {{Lang|es|Colegio de Aragón|italic=no}} organized a memorial homage session shortly afterwards.Alares López 2013, p. 382-3

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As a conservative theorist who strove to stimulate organization of the working class, Minguijón failed; he is not noted as influencing Carlist syndicates either in their Catholic or pistolerismo format.Minguijón is not a single time mentioned in works dealing with Catholic and Carlist syndicalism as developing in the early 20th century, compare Colin M. Winston, Carlist workers groups in Catalonia, 1900–1923, [in:] Stanley G. Payne. (ed.), Identidad y nacionalismo en la España contemporánea: el carlismo, 1833–1975, Madrid 2001, {{ISBN|8487863469}}, pp. 85–101, his also The Proletarian Carlist Road to Fascism: Sindicalismo Libre, [in:] Journal of Contemporary History 17/1 (1982), pp. 557–585, his also Workers and the Right in Spain, 1900–1936, Princeton 2014, {{ISBN|9781400858095}} However, already by the early 1910s Minguijón was noted in wide public discourse as "{{Lang|es|excelente periodista católico}}" ("an excellent Catholic journalist") La lectura dominical 29.04.11, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0001659420&page=12 here] or "{{Lang|es|ilustre publicista católico}}"; ("an illustrious catholic publicist")Revista Montserratina December 1917, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0005027605&page=59 here] in the 1920s he was acknowledged also as "{{Lang|es|conocido sociologo}}" ("a well-known sociologist").Nuestro Tiempo October 1924, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0002696758&page=76 here] When referred to as a law scholar, apart from the usual "{{Lang|es|catedrático}}"Revista católica de cuestines sociales August 1929, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0002737190&page=61 here], also "doctisimo catedrático", "sabio catedrático", "catedrático ilustre" etc he was occasionally hailed as "{{Lang|es|maestro}}".Revista de ciencias jurídicas 1926, available [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0005142279&page=100 here] In professional realm he gained name following the 1927 publication of {{Lang|es|Historia del derecho español}}, in 1933 entering the elite of jurisprudence scholars when nominated to {{Lang|es|Tribunal de Garantias|italic=no}} and finally acquiring the highest status available to an academic when nominated to {{Lang|es|Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas|italic=no}} in 1940. It remains striking, however, that he was not invited to Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación.

After Minguijón's death a street in Zaragoza and a college in his native Calatayud were named after him; in both cases the naming survived purges related to anti-Francoist backlash of the late 20th century and implementation of Ley de Memoria Histórica of 2007.e.g. in an article discussing health care infrastructure in Zaragoza Minguijón is referred to as a Christian-Democrat, not a Carlist or a Francoist, see Isabel Delmás Gracia, Enfermeria y planificacion familiar en Aragon en el franquismo y transicion [MA thesis], Zaragoza 2014, p. 27 None of his works has been re-published and the institutions he co-founded, Instituto Balmes and Colegio de Aragón, ceased to exist as separate units. In public discourse he gradually fell into oblivion; from 1959 to date the popular Madrid daily ABC mentioned him seven times, in all cases briefly noting his name when discussing Christian-Democratic, Traditionalist or social thought;compare hemeroteca of ABC, available [http://hemeroteca.abc.es/ here] a contemporary scholar declared him a "completely forgotten figure".Manuelle Peloille, Notas sobre la recepcion de la recepción de la revolución rusa en España, p. 4, available [https://www.academia.edu/7028869/NOTAS_SOBRE_LA_RECEPCION_DE_LA_REVOLUCI%C3%93N_RUSA_EN_ESPA%C3%91A here] Currently he is acknowledged only in major general encyclopedias, covered in very brief notes as "{{Lang|es|historiador del derecho}}", member of the high Tribunal and "{{Lang|es|periodista}}".Minguijón Adrían, Salvador [in:] Gran Enciclopedia de España, vol. 14, Zaragoza 1999, {{ISBN|9788487544149}}, p. 6537 In specialized almanacs and reference dictionaries he appears as a scholar in philosophy.Díaz Díaz 1995, pp. 529–531

Minguijón has earned no monograph so far. In historical literature he is noted mostly as a political theorist, though exact categorization might differ: he could be referred to as one of the first Christian-Democratic politicians and theorists in Spain,Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 72, Díaz Díaz 1995, p. 529 as a somewhat unorthodox Carlist who strove to modernize Traditionalism,Bartyzel 2002, p. 288, Fernández Riquelme 2008, p. 197; on the other hand, he is ignored in a recent large encyclopedica entry on Traditionalism, Pedro Carlos González Cuevas, Tradicionalismo, [in:] Javier Fernández Sebastián (ed.), Diccionario político y social del siglo XX español, Madrid 2008, {{ISBN|9788420687698}}, pp. 1163–1173 as a representative of {{Lang|es|corporativismo católico}}, {{Lang|es|democracia orgánica}} and {{Lang|es|católicismo social}},Benjamín Oltra, Amando de Miguel, Bonpartismo y catolicismo. Una hipótesis sobre los orígenes ideológicos del franquismo, [in:] Revista de Sociologia 8 (1978), p. 87, Sergio Fernández Riquelme, La Democracia Orgánica en Espańa [1943–1967]: los teóricos y las ideas, [in:] Arbil 120, available [http://www.arbil.org/120demo.htm here] or as in very recent work, a key contributor to the theoretical vision of emerging Francoism.Pulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 19; in the text he is noted 26 times Some authors straightforwardly declare Minguijón an enemy of democracy,Díaz Díaz 1995, p. 531 some prefer qualified applications like "{{Lang|es|democristiano}}"Baltar Rodriguez 2013, p. 72, Minguijón y Adrián, Juan Salvador [in:] Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa online, available [http://www.enciclopedia-aragonesa.com/voz.asp?voz_id=8834 here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808103046/http://www.enciclopedia-aragonesa.com/voz.asp?voz_id=8834 |date=2016-08-08 }} and some quote him speaking passionately against "{{Lang|es|democracia individualista y caótica}}",Oltra, de Miguel 1978, p. 87 while declaring that only a corporative system ensured genuine democracy.contributing to the Francoist periodical in midst of the Civil War (September 1938) he wrote that the Republic was "un régimen basado en la voluntad del pueblo. Y en buen régimen democrático la voluntad del pueblo habrá de ser respetada siempre, lo mismo cuando nos agrade que cuando no nos agrade. Esa es la democracia. Nosotros no conocemos otra"; the problem was that the Frentepopulistas did not respect democracy, referred after Pulpillo Leiva 2013, p. 197 Few authors recognize him as one of the pioneers of sociology in Spain, a follower of Jaime Balmes.Bartyzel 2015, pp. 16, 64, also Oltra, de Miguel 1978, p. 86

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• Gustavo Alares López, Severino Aznar y el Colegio de Aragón (1945–1959), Zaragoza 2013, {{ISBN|9788499112657}}
• Juan Ramón de Andrés Martín, El cisma mellista. Historia de una ambición política, Madrid 2000, {{ISBN|9788487863820}}
• Severino Aznar y Embid, Salvador Minguijón Adrián, [in:] Revista Internacional de Sociología 17 (1959), pp. 343–367
• Juan Francisco Baltar Rodríguez, Los ejercicios de oposiciones a professor auxiliar de Salvador Minguijón, [in:] Glossae. European Journal of Legal History 10 (2013), pp. 71–87
• Gonzalo Díaz Díaz, Minguijón Adrián, Salvador, [in:] Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española, vol 5, Madrid 1995, {{ISBN|9788400075040}}, pp. 529–531
• Sergio Fernández Riquelme, Sociología, corporativismo y política social en España. Las décadas del pensamiento corporativo en España: de Ramiro de Maeztu a Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora (1877–1977), [PhD thesis Universidad de Murcia], Murcia 2008
• Rafael Gambra Ciudad, Aspectos del pensamiento de Salvador Minguijón, [in:] Revista international de sociologia 67 (1959), pp. 82–86
• Rafael Gambra Ciudad, Recuerdo a Salvador Minguijón, [in:] Nuestro Tiempo 11 (1959), pp. 572–579
• José Luis Orella Martínez, El origen del primer Catolicismo social Español [PhD thesis, Universidad de Educación a Distancia], Madrid 2012
• José Orlandis Rovira, Juan Salvador Minguijón Adrián, [in:] Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español, vol. 29, Madrid 1959, pp. 763–766
• Carlos Pulpillo Leiva, Orígenes del franquismo: la construcción de la "Nueva España" (1936–1941) [PhD thesis Universidad Rey Juan Carlos], Madrid 2013
• Don Severino Aznar [in:] Biografías aragonesas. Primera serie, Zaragoza 1967, pp. 225–230
• Jesús Tobío Fernández, Salvador Minguijón Adrián, [in:] Arbor 44 (1959), pp. 217–220

• [http://portal.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/instituto_figuerola/programas/phu/diccionariodecatedraticos/lcatedraticos/jsminguijon Minguijón at Universidad Carlos III] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603034124/http://portal.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/instituto_figuerola/programas/phu/diccionariodecatedraticos/lcatedraticos/jsminguijon |date=2016-06-03 }}
• [http://www.saavedrafajardo.org/CentroDocumDiazAbad.aspx?autor=MINGUIJONADRIANSalvador&idAutor=1010997 Minguijón at Centro Gonzalo Diaz y Dolores Abad] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924093533/http://www.saavedrafajardo.org/CentroDocumDiazAbad.aspx?autor=MINGUIJONADRIANSalvador&idAutor=1010997 |date=2015-09-24 }}
• [http://cesbor.blogspot.com/2013/03/agradeciendo-un-hermoso-gesto.html Minguijón and Aznar (including a photo from 1906)]
• [http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0029772671&page=3 Minguijón's speech in Barcelona (1914)]
• [http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1959/07/17/042.html Minguijón's press obituary]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhK1ER3B4Hg Por Dios y por España; contemporary Carlist propaganda]

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