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Status of the Constitution

Paraguay
  • English
    The supreme law of the Republic is the Constitution. [The Constitution], the treaties, conventions and international agreements approved and ratified, the laws dictated by the Congress and other juridical provisions of inferior hierarchy, sanctioned in consequence, integrate the positive national law [derecho positivo] in the enounced order of preference [prelación].
    Whoever attempts to change that order, outside [al margen de] the procedures specified in this Constitution, would incur in the crimes that will be classified and punished in the law.
    This Constitution will not lose its force or stop being observed because of acts of force nor may [it] be abrogated [derogada] by any other means different from the ones it provides [dispone].
    All the provisions or acts of authority opposed to that established in this Constitution lack validity [validez]. (Art. 137)
  • Spanish
    La ley suprema de la República es la Constitución. Esta, los tratados, convenios y acuerdos internacionales aprobados y ratificados, las leyes dictadas por el Congreso y otras disposiciones jurídicas de inferior jerarquía, sancionadas en consecuencia, integran el derecho positivo nacional en el orden de prelación enunciado.
    Quienquiera que intente cambiar dicho orden, al margen de los procedimientos previstos en esta Constitución, incurrirá en los delitos que se tipificarán y penarán en la ley.
    Esta Constitución no perderá su vigencia ni dejará de observarse por actos de fuerza o fuera derogada por cualquier otro medio distinto del que ella dispone.
    Carecen de validez todas las disposiciones o actos de autoridad opuestos a lo establecido en esta Constitución. (Art. 137)

Status of the Constitution

Paraguay
  • English
    The right of the indigenous peoples to preserve and to develop their ethnic identity in the respective habitat is recognized and guaranteed. They have the right, likewise, to freely apply their systems of political, social, economic, cultural, and religious organization, as well as the voluntarily subjection to their customary norms for the regulation of [their] internal coexistence [convivencia], as long as they do not infringe upon the fundamental rights established in this Constitution. … (Art. 63)
  • Spanish
    Queda reconocido y garantizado el derecho de los pueblos indígenas a preservar y a desarrollar su identidad étnica en el respectivo hábitat. Tienen derecho, asimismo, a aplicar libremente sus sistemas de organización política, social, económica, cultural y religiosa, al igual que la voluntaria sujeción a sus normas consuetudinarias para la regulación de la convivencia interior siempre que ellas no atenten contra los derechos fundamentales establecidos en esta Constitución. … (Art. 63)