The Spanish Constitution promulgated on 8 June 1837 included two additional articles of special importance. The first referred to the jury system in the Spanish judicial process, something which still does not exist; the second clearly stated that ‘the overseas provinces will be governed by special laws’, but offered no further particulars. Eight years later, a new constitutional text, written and passed by the moderate Liberals, suppressed the first of the additional articles of the previous constitution but said nothing about the other, concerning how Spain's overseas provinces should be governed. The commitment to endow Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines – the last remnants of Spain's overseas empire – with special laws therefore persisted.