Colombia's 1863 constitution takes individual rights to…

Colombia's 1863 constitution takes individual rights to similar extremes.

Now there is no possible limit on the spoken word.

In addition to abolishing the death penalty, the constitution guarantees citizens' right to bear arms and to practice freedom of religion, at least in principle.

However, the Liberals are not quite prepared to leave the Roman Catholic Church to its own devices, and therefore the charter endows both national and state governments with vague supervisory authority in religious matters.

Moreover, Mosquera had not waited for the constitution to be enacted before issuing decrees that yet again expelled the Jesuits, who had returned under Ospina's presidency, seized most church property, and (with certain exceptions) legally abolished the religious orders of monks and nuns.