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The constitution is one of the first in the world to recognise the right to food. [9]Article 281, labelled Food Sovereignty, reads: "Food Sovereignty constitutes an objective and strategic obligation from the State to guarantee its people, communities, pueblos and nationalities self sufficiency in healthy food, culturally appropriate in a permanent form."
A constitutional referendum was held in Ecuador on 28 September 2008 to ratify or reject the constitution drafted by the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly elected in 2007. [1] The new constitution was approved by 69% of voters. Following its approval, early elections were held in April 2009. [2]
A codified constitution is a constitution that is contained in a single document, which is the single source of constitutional law in a state. An uncodified constitution is one that is not contained in a single document, but consists of several different sources, which may be written or unwritten.
Ecuador has had a total of twenty constitutions over the course of its history, which can be seen as a symptom of Ecuador's chronic instability. After several years of political crisis, the government of Rafael Correa , elected in 2006 following the dismissal of Lucio Gutiérrez by Congress, proposed a new Magna Carta for the country with the ...
Ecuadorian nationality is regulated by the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador and the Naturalization Law of 1976 (Spanish: Ley de Naturalización de 1976). [1] Some articles of the Naturalization Law of 1976 conflict with the 2008 Constitution, however Article 424 of the constitution establishes that it prevails over any other legal orders.
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Of the 130 members, 94 voted in favour of the draft (consisting of 444 articles), which would be Ecuador's twentieth constitution since its inception as a sovereign state. It would enable Correa to run for two new terms, and also gives the president the right to dissolve Congress within the first three years of its four-year term.