Costa Rican Constitution of 1869

[1] The pronouncement of November 1, 1868, proclaimed Jesús Jiménez Zamora as provisional president.

[2] On November 3, Jiménez called elections for a Constituent Assembly, which began its sessions on January 1, 1869, under the presidency of Juan José Ulloa Solares.

A commission of constituents drafted the project for the new Constitution, for which the text of the Constitution of 1859 served as a model, to which only a few slight adjustments and additions were made.

However, the validity of the new Charter ended on April 27, 1870, when President Jiménez was overthrown by a military coup and the constitutional order was broken yet again.

[2] The Political Constitution of 1869 consisted of 149 articles distributed in thirteen titles.