@article{del Real Alcala_2013, title={THE VALUE OF NATIONAL PLURALITY IN THE DESIGN OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE}, volume={9}, url={https://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/1297}, DOI={10.19044/esj.2013.v9n19p%p}, abstractNote={The constitutional changes that are taking place in Latin America have meant, for many of these countries, a profound reform (or, sometimes, rupture) in the “Model of Constitutional State” that sustains their democratic systems. 19th century Legislative State (legalism as a legal theory), whose applicability practically extended to the 20th century and beyond, is being substituted on the whole by a Constitutional State configured in the paradigm of neo-constitutionalism, a prototype that we modern democracies are currently operating within. This is the case for Bolivia, wherein the 2009 Constitution established a “Plurinational Constitutional State”, with all of the implications that this has meant for the design of the institutional aspect of the country.}, number={19}, journal={European Scientific Journal, ESJ}, author={del Real Alcala, Juan Alberto}, year={2013}, month={Jul.} }