Plurinational State of Bolivia 2009 Constitution

PART V. NORMATIVE HIERARCHY AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM

SOLE TITLE. SUPREMACY AND REFORM OF THE CONSTITUTION

Article 410

1. Every person, natural and legal, as well as public organs, public functions and institutions, are subject to the present Constitution.
2. The Constitution is the supreme norm of Bolivian law and enjoys supremacy before any other normative disposition. The components of constitutional law include the international Treaties and Conventions in the matter of human rights and the norms of Communitarian Law, which have been ratified by the country. The application of the legal norms shall be governed by the following hierarchy, in accordance with the authority of the territorial entities:
   1. Constitution of the State
   2. International treaties
   3. National laws, statutes of the autonomies, organic charters and the other departmental, municipal and indigenous legislation.
   4. Decrees, regulations and other resolutions issued by the corresponding executive organs.

Article 411

1. The total reform of the Constitution, or that which affects its fundamental premises, affects rights, duties and guarantees, or the supremacy and reform of the Constitution, shall take place through an original plenipotentiary Constituent Assembly, put into motion by popular will through referendum. The convocation of the referendum shall be carried out by citizen initiative, with the signatures of at least twenty percent of the electorate; by absolute majority vote of the members of the Pluri-National Legislative Assembly; or by the President of the State. The Constituent Assembly (Asamblea Constituyente) shall draft its own regulations for all effects. The constitutional text must be approved by two-thirds of the members present. The validity of the reform shall require approval by constitutional referendum.
2. The partial reform of the Constitution may be initiated by popular initiative with the signatures of at least twenty percent of the electorate, or by the Pluri-National Legislative Assembly through a law of constitutional reform approved by two-thirds of the total members present of the Pluri-National Legislative Assembly. Any partial reform shall require approval by constitutional referendum.