Constitution of Peru (1826)

In lieu of a formal meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Peru, the constitution was adopted by the electoral college and promulgated on 8 December 1826 by a council of government headed by Peruvian general Andrés de Santa Cruz.

With the collapse of his governments in Bolivia and Peru in 1827, however, these constitutions were repealed and Bolívar was deposed as president in both nations.

By early 1825, Spanish resistance to Peruvian independence had been reduced to the command of general José Ramón Rodil and the garrison of Real Felipe Fortress, in Callao, on the coast outside of Lima.

When the Congress of Peru met on 22 February 1825, however, it extended Bolívar's dictatorship for another year and disbanded itself.

Annoyed, Bolívar secured the expulsion of the anti-Bolívar delegates and thus created a partisan opposition to his policies.