Colombia Constitution vs USA Constitution

United States

AMENDMENT V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Similarities in Individual Rights

Colombia:

TITLE II CHAPTER I ARTICLE 29

No one may be judged except in accordance with previously written laws which shall provide the basis of each decision before a competent judge or tribunal following all appropriate forms.

The difference between Colombia and the United States is that the United Stated does not have the the right to privacy in their constitution.

Differences in Individual Rights

Both Colombia and the United States share the same right. The principle of no punishment without law

Columbia:TITLE IICHAPTER IARTICLE 15

All individuals have the right to personal and family privacy and to their good reputation, and the State has to respect them and to make others respect them. Similarly, individuals have the right to know, update, and rectify information collected about them in data banks and in the records of public and private entities.

Freedom and the other guarantees approved in the Constitution shall be respected in the collection, processing, and circulation of data.

Correspondence and other forms of private communication may not be violated. They may only be intercepted or recorded on the basis of a court order in cases and following the formalities established by statute.

For tax or legal purposes and for cases of inspection, the oversight and intervention of the State may demand making available accounting records and other private documents within the limits provided by statute.

Difference in type of Government

United States does not have a munincipal government, and Colombia does.Thier role of the people willing to elect is here.

TITLE IX CHAPTER I ARTICLE 260

The citizens elect in a direct manner the President and Vice President of the Republic, senators, representatives, governors, deputies, mayors, municipal and district councilors, members of the local administrative boards and, when necessary, the members of the Constituent Assembly and the other authorities or officials stipulated by statute.

Colombia

United States

ARTICLE IISECTION 2

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

Cites:

Unique Provision and Comparison

https://www.constituteproject.org/search?lang=en&compare=Colombia_2013&compare=United_States_of_America_1992&key=mun

Similarities in type of Government

VS.

As cabinet election it is the responsibility of the President of the Republic, as the chief of state, head of the government, and supreme administrative authority to do the following:

United States

Colombia:

Aticle 189-

Appoint and dismiss freely Cabinet ministers and directors of administrative departments.

free education in Colombia.

Article 67:Education shall be free of charge in the State institutions, without prejudice to those who can afford to defray the costs.

Colombia is willing to give those who cant afford to go to school, to go to school. I would like to live under the Colombian constitution because I feel much more privileged than the United States.

Colombia Constitution vs USA Constitution