This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...ended in their occupation of the country in 1829. Until 1851 Guatemala was under Salvadorian control. Carrera, the Guatemalan patriot, in that year defeated the combined forces of Honduras and Salvador, and gave the country independence and a constitution that is the basis of the present one. Filling the office of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...ended in their occupation of the country in 1829. Until 1851 Guatemala was under Salvadorian control. Carrera, the Guatemalan patriot, in that year defeated the combined forces of Honduras and Salvador, and gave the country independence and a constitution that is the basis of the present one. Filling the office of president for life, Carrera kept the country at peace until the Central American war of 1863. He died in 1865 and Cerna, his successor, was overthrown in 1871 by Granados, the leader of liberalism in the state. With the rise of Granados, the Jesuits were driven from Guatemala, commerce thrown open to the world, and treaties of friendship and commercial alliance signed with several foreign countries. In 1876 Guatemala attempted to hold a congress of Central American states regarding a union and a common government, but the only result was to reopen hostilities. Barrios, elected in 1873, was one of the most important men Guatemala has known. He advanced liberal ideas and ended his first term in 1879 by promulgating a new constitution founded on that of 1851. The constitution instituted in 1879, on that of 1851, and amended somewhat in 1889, is now in force. It is very similar to those of the other Central and South American republics. The legislature consists of one House, the National Assembly, to which members are elected by universal suffrage at the rate of one for every 20,000 inhabitants or fraction thereof above 10,000. Candidates must be Guatemalan citizens and at least twenty-one years of age. The representatives serve a term of four years, but one half of the House is elected every two years. It meets on the first of March in each year for a session of two months, which can be extended if so desired. The president is elected for a six years...
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