American Constitution

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to preserve the libertarian spirit that permeated the whole struggle for independence , the text presented fairly radical innovations compared with the letters of other countries of the season . She was the pioneer in consecrating the division of state powers into three , as Montesquieu advocated : Executive , Legislative and Judicial . Another major innovation was the establishment of a democratic republic , where the head of state, a president , would mandate endorsed by the people , through the ballot . At the time, a young revolutionary French republic and the old (and soon extinct) Dutch Republic were the only examples of prominent republican regime . Worldwide , which prevailed were monarchical regimes , in its most absolutist .

Among the most famous in the history of the Constitution amendments , enacted noteworthy that the end of slavery , in 1865 , decreed that the legalization female vote in 1920 , the prohibition of any kind of confession under torture in 1937 , ...

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