The most recent
Constituent assembly
A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution. Members of a constituent assembly may be elected ...
of
Bolivia
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was the
Constituent Assembly of 2006–07, which drafted a new
Constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed.
When these princip ...
which was approved in the
Constitutional referendum of 2009.
Past assemblies
Prior assemblies have met to reconsider the form of Bolivia's government, beginning with the 1825 Deliberating Assembly (''Asamblea Deliberante'') in Chuquisaca. Others occurred in 1826 (Constituent Assembly), 1831 (a General Constituent Assembly), 1834 (Constituent Congress), 1839 (Constituent Congress), 1843 (National Convention), 1848 (Constituent Congress), 1851 (National Convention), 1861, 1868, 1871, 1877–78, 1900 (National Convention), 1920–21 (National Convention),
1938 (National Convention), 1944 (National Convention), 1945 (National Convention), and 1966–67
[Rossana Barragán, "Ciudadanía y elecciones, convenciones y debates" in ]
References
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Politics of Bolivia
Constitution of Bolivia
1825 establishments in Bolivia