Exam 3: Constitutions: From States and Nations to Regimes, and Back Again

Which of the following undermined caudillo politics?

In theory, which of the following is best designed to develop national identity?

Which is the only country that involves states in its constitutional reform process?

Which two countries experienced a more populist form of bureaucratic authoritarianism?

Legal positivism holds that lawmaking should be:

Which of the following does NOT distinguish the constitutions of Latin American from the U.S. Constitution?

Which two groups most influenced the Latin American constitutions drafted after independence?

In Nicaragua, El Pacto refers to the negotiated settlement that brought an end to the war between the Sandinistas and the contras.

One danger of substantive democracy is that it can institutionalize opposition to the regime, rather than just to the government.

The caudillos were most likely to emerge from which group?

Import-substitution industrialization benefited which group?

In both Colombia and Venezuela, political pacts contributed to the collapse of the party system.

No country in Latin America uses the referendum as part of its constitutional refor process.

Which two countries relied upon political pacts in their past democratic history?

Hacienda owners were most closely associated with which group?

Constitutional reform is uncommon in Latin America.

Which of the following is most closely associated with "protected democracies"?

Which best describes the impact of political pacts over time?

Indigenismo emphasizes cultural practices over bloodlines as the basis for racial differences.

Caudillo can be translated as: