1. SOCIAL STUDIES PROYECT Colegio bilingüe Richmond To: diego villamisar 5°b By: Valentina Sandoval, Valentina Morales and Sara Prieto

5. Second, it provided for parity (paridad) in elective and appointive positions at all levels of government, including cabinet and supreme court (corte suprema) positions not falling under the civil service ,assemblies. And third , it required that all legislation be passed by a two-thirds majority in congress. The 1957 amendments also give women the same political rights as men , including the right vote. The 1968 constitutional reforms provided for a carefully measured transition from the national front to traditional two-party competition. The 1968 amendments additionally allowed for the dismantling of the national front coalition arrangement by increasing executive powers in economic social , and development matters. the constitutional changes, particularly the abolition of the of the two-thirds majority requirement in both houses of congress of the passage of major legislation also affected the powers of congress and its relationship with the president. Legislative programs , although congress could approve , delay , or veto an executive branch initiative. Economic and social development plans, legislative seats at the municipal and department levels. Although the sitges san Carlos agreements provisions for altering the presidency and maintaining parity in congress ended in 1974 when both parties ran candidates for the presidency , parity in the bureaucracy continued for another four years. Constitution ,

6. Amendments resulted from the sitges agreement and the subsequent san Carlos agreement draw up by liberal and conservative leaders together at meetings in 1957. this amendments were design to impose bipartisan noncompetitive rule for a sixteen – year period lasting until 1974.with the backing of the military , the national front displaced the repressive regime of general gustavo rojas pinilla . The first three national front presidents succeeded in keeping the peace between the parties and in committing the countries to far – reaching social and economic reforms. By the mid 1960s , la violencia had been reduced largely to banditry and an incipient guerrilla movement. In addition to ending la violencia, the national front provided security and stability for the government system. The old patterns of blind partisanship and interparty hostilities declined markedly and were replaced with dialogue among leaders of the two parties.

7. Such as widening the scope of government authority , particularly in the area of the economy. The revised article 32 guarantees free enterprise and private initiative but puts the state in charge of the general direction of the economy . This amendment allows the government to intervene in the production , distribution , utilization and consumption of goods and services in a manner responsive to economic planning for integral development. In 1988 the provisions of the 1886 constitution , as amended until governed Colombia. That February , however , president barco responded to a wave by drug traffickers and guerrillas by launching an effort to rewrite of attacks the constitution and make it a more effective weapon in the fight against violence. He also wanted to streamline the state to permit authorities to better deal with political and drug-related crimes. Nariño house accord that signaled a consensus on the need to hold a national plebiscites on October 9 , 1988 , on the institutional reforms proposed by barco. In announcing the agreement , barco singled out as major problems the eroded faith in judges , the decreased credibility of congress , and peoples loss of hope about public administration. Reforming the constitution on major social , political , and economic issues. Municipal elections held in march 1988 determined the party composition of a fifty-member panel . Called the institutional readjustment commission , whose purpose was to ask voters to approve constitutional changes in the planned

8. October plebiscite. suspended in April 1988 however , as a result of a decision by the council of state the highest court on constitutional and administrative matters – that the holding of a plebiscite would have raised a constitutional problem.

10. SOCIAL OBLIGATION: IS AN ETHICAL OR IDEOLOGICAL THEORY THAT AN ENTITY WHETHER IT IS A GOVERNMENT, CORPORATION, ORGANIZATION OR INDIVIDUAL HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO SOCIETY AT LARGE POLITICAL RIGHTS: ARE A CLASS OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS THAT PROTECT INDIVIDUALS FROM UNWARRANTED GOVERNMENT ACTION AND ENSURE ONE'S ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CIVIL AND POLITICAL LIFE OF THE STATE WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION OR REPRESSION POLITICAL ACTIVITIES: LEGISLATURE: IS A TYPE OF DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLY WITH THE POWER TO PASS, AMEND AND REPEAL LAWS. JUDICIARY.: IS THE SYSTEM OF COURTS WHICH INTERPRETS AND APPLIES THE LAW IN THE NAME OF THE SOVEREIGN OR STATE. THE JUDICIARY ALSO PROVIDES A MECHANISM FOR THE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES. EXECUTIVE: HAS SOLE AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DAILY ADMINISTRATION OF THE STATE BUREAUCRACY. [ HE DIVISION OF POWER INTO SEPARATE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT IS CENTRAL TO THE REPUBLICAN IDEA OF THE SEPARATION OF POWERS STATE OF EMERGENCY: IS A GOVERNMENTAL DECLARATION THAT MAY SUSPEND CERTAIN NORMAL FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT, ALERT CITIZENS TO ALTER THEIR NORMAL BEHAVIORS, OR ORDER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO IMPLEMENT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS. CONSTITUTION AMENDED: