Historical Approach to the Constitutional Regulation of Political Rights and their Evolution in Political Participation in El Salvador

Abstract

This article presents the historical briefly, legal and political process that has occurred in the Salvadoran State regarding the requirements and circumstances that motivated the Constitutions of the Republic enforceability of certain conditions in order to establish whether a resident holds the as a citizen, and if, therefore, is enabled by the Legal System to exert Political Rights, the most representative of them the right to active suffrage, but it gradually extends to passive suffrage. Progressive changes that the constituent embodied in the Magna Carta, so that we can appreciate several steps ranging from the recognition of census vote, according to the nineteenth-century European legislation which had changed its form of government from Absolute Monarchy to Republics, until the latest reforms enacted by the Legislature Assembly, and interpretations by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which allowed include the scope of political participation for choose President and Vice President of the Salvadoran citizens living abroad, as well as approval of transitional Electoral Code reforms that allowed to vote in the recent elections to the agents of the National Civil Police and students of the National Academy of Public Safety, which historically were unable to vote in every election. It is therefore the synthesis of a process of greater inclusion in the Salvadoran Electoral System.