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COLOMBIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT AND PEACE AGREEMENTCourt and Peace Agreement • July 12th, 2018
Colombia is one of the few countries in Latin America that has kept its Constitution for more than a hundred years. Despite the Constitution of 1886 having had several reforms, it endured until 1991 after having gone through a period of important institutional, political, and social crises. Then, in the elections of 1990, Colombians in the so-called “seventh ballot” voted in favour of convoking a constituent national assembly. This assembly consisted of different areas of society; therefore, it was considered a progressive constitution. Article 1 of the Constitution defines the fundamentals of the state under the rule of Law shaped as a unitary and decentralized republic with autonomy for territorial entities, a presidential regime, and a system of checks and balances. Likewise, a recognized ethnic and cultural diversity as a nation was included in the set of rights’ provision, and the constitution created the Constitutional Court as a means to control the constitutionality of laws and
