Despite all of this, the Catalan independence movement was for many year represented by little more than a handful of groups called in those days “radicals”. Before things were achieved by force, now the force is in the streets and in the polling stations. And it happens that in a marriage imposed by force, one of the spouses is subject to the other. Until the arrival of the Divorce Law, approved in 1932 during the Second Spanish Republic, marriage could only be dissolved on death of one of the spouses. There are those who consider that Catalan independence should be decided by all Spaniards.