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Flashcards by tatiana ojeda, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by tatiana ojeda
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| Question | Answer |
| GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS | The Governmental System |
| Constitutional Development | Since declaring its independence from Spain in 1810, Colombia has had ten constitutions. |
| important constitutional issues.. | 1. division of powers. 2. the strength of the executive branch. 3. the role of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS | Colombia has had 10 constitutional reforms |
| 1832 | To exercise the right to vote , they must be a man over 21, be married and own property. The slaves were not considered as citizens! |
| 1843 | They will be citizens if they were 21 years and if they were free men. With these conditions just the 5% were considered citizens |
| 1853 | • Abolition of slavery. • All men born in Spain are declared citizens with the right to vote the territory that would be of legal age and that were married. • Popular voting is implemented for the most important public positions. • Direct and secret vote is established. |
| 1863 | Citizens were Men of legal age who could demonstrate that were Illustrated. |
| 1886 | Men over 21 years old were declared citizens , just if they had a profession or occupation that was legitimate and that guaranteed their subsistence. |
| 1910 | The President of the Republic could be chosen directly, by all those considered as citizens. |
| 1936 | All men regardless of their condition they could vote. |
| 1957 | Under the presidency of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, women over twenty-one, for First time they get the right to vote. |
| 1975 | During the presidency of Alfonso López Michelsen, approving the age of majority eighteen. |
| 1986 | The popular election of mayors and governors is constituted. |
| STRUCTURE OF POWER IN COLOMBIA | It is divided in three branches: |
| Traditional Parties | Elites from the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party have dominated the nation's political institutions. |
| period of "la violencia" | Party membership was enough reason to kill or be killed. Families, communities, and regions have been identified with one or the other party. |
| Conservative hegemony | from 1886 to 1930 the conservative party dominated the politics, but they had to left the power due to the "massacre of the banana plantations" (1928) |
| Liberal Republic | 1930-1946 the liberals domained the country, that could advanced in the modernization and control of the state, but also new econmic strategies to overcome the "great depression" |
| National Front | 1958-1974 was a coalition to take out Gustavo Rojas Pinilla from the power. Each four years they interchange the presidencial periods between conservatives and liberals. |
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