The CLR James Journal

Volume 23, Issue 1/2, Fall 2017

César Augusto Baldi
Pages 307-322

From Modern Constitutionalism to New Latin American Decolonial Constitutionalism

It is not easy for modern constitutionalism to recognize diversity in different countries. In the years since 1982, a “pluralist horizon” appeared in Latin American constitutions and now it is time to discuss the existence—or not—of a new constitutionalism in this region, especially after the main innovations have been made in the constitutional process in Bolivia and Ecuador.