Constitution of the Republic of Nicaragua, 1974
From Roach Busters
we, the representatives of the people of Nicaragua,
meeting in National Constituent Assembly,
decree and sanction the following
CONSTITUTION
TITLE I
The Nation and the State
Article 1. Nicaragua is a nation constituted as a unitary, free, sovereign, and independent state.
Article 2. Political power resides in the people, who exercise it through their representatives in the government of the state.
No other person or meeting of persons can assume that power or representation. Violation of this precept constitutes a crime.
Article 3. The national territory extends, under the full sovereignty of the state, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and from the republic of Honduras to the republic of Costa Rica. It also includes with the same status the adjacent islands, keys, headlands, banks, the submerged lands, the territorial sea and the continental shelf, as well as the air space, the stratosphere, and the entire undersea area of its sovereign domain according to international law.
Article 4. The sovereignty of the state is absolute and may not be delegated; and, as with the territory, it is indivisible, inalienable, and imprescriptible.
The government of the state is authorized to enter into treaties for the use of its natural and geographic resources for the benefit of the people and for the temporary use of a part of Nicaraguan territory, provided the exclusive purpose thereof is national or constitutional defense and, in both cases, sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected.
In any event, such use is restricted to the time absolutely essential and may be ordered to cease at any time by decision of the Government of Nicaragua exclusively.
Article 5. To rebuild the Central American nation is a permanent aspiration of the people of Nicaragua.
To this end, treaties may be concluded to promote the total union of Central America or its progressive political, juridical, social, cultural, and economic integration.
Article 6. Spanish is the national and official language of the state.
Article 7. The state has no official religion.
Article 8. Nicaragua proscribes all types of political, military, and economic aggression, and intervention in the affairs of other states. It recognizes the right of self-determination of peoples, arbitration as a method of solving international disputes, and the other accepted principles that constitute American international law.
The Government
