Abstract

CORAL-LUCERO**, James Iván. Ideological Approaches to the 1910 Constitutional Reform in Colombia. Pap.polit. [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.2, pp.373-393. ISSN 0122-4409.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.papo21-2.airc.

The aim of this text is to analyze the different ideologies that gave birth to the 1910 constitutional reform in Colombia, and pointing the main changes that arose in contrast to the Constitution of 1886, bot in its organic and dogmatic part. For the purpose of studying the changes in the organic part, I took as reference three topics on which there was major debate during the National Constitutional Assembly: powers of the president, judicial independence and territorial organization. On its part, changes in the dogmatic part are related to the broadening of civil laws and prohibiting death penalty. The methodology used is the study of the influence of ideologies on the changes mentioned above, as well as the comparison of constitutional texts. The result shows that there was a change of ideology and with it a return to a broader democracy in an institutional sense, as well as a greater respect for citizen and civil rights. The contribution of the article is to show that the reform of 1910 changed the vision of the Constitution of 1886 and opened several democratic channels.

Keywords : 1910 constitutional reform; 1886 constitution; ideologies; institutional changes; civil rights.

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