Bolivia: Indigenous Community Justice In The Bolivian Constitution Of 2009

Bolivia: Indigenous Community Justice In The Bolivian Constitution Of 2009 John L. Hammond, 2011   The Bolivian constitution, debated in a Constituent Assembly in 2006 and 2007 called by the country's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, was adopted in a referendum in 2009. Among many other important provisions recognizing the country's majority indigenous population, it legitimizes the practice of indigenous community justice. Indigenous justice differs in important ways from the...

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