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The Republic of Guatemala, established on March 21, 1847, after having formed for twenty-six years part of the Confederation of Central America, is governed under a Constitution proclaimed December, 1879, and modified in 1887, 1897, 1913, and finally in July, 1927. The present Constitution came into effect January 1, 1928. The legislative power is vested in a single-chambered National Assembly, consisting of representatives (one for every 30,000 inhabitants) chosen by universal suffrage for 4 years. In addition a Council of State of 7 members, 3 elected by the National Assembly, and 4 appointed by the President of the Republic, has supervision of public concessions and contracts, and large advisory powers. The President is elected for 6 years, and barred from re-election for a period of 12 years.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Guatemala
1. Official Publications
Department of Overseas Trade Reports. Annual Series. London.
Informe de la Direction de Estadistica. Annual. Guatemala.
Informe de la Secretaria de Fomento. Annual. Guatemala.
Movimiento de población habido en los pueblos de la republica de Guatemala. Annual. Guatemala.
2. Non-Official Publications
Caille (Alexis), Au Pays du Printemps éternel : La Guatémala et son avenir économique. Paris, 1914
Fife (D.), Guatemala and the States of Central America. London, 1913.
Keane (A. H.), Central and South America. In Stanford’s Compendium. New Issue. London, 1901.
Key (Hel ner), Kaffee, Zucker und Bananen: Eine Heise nach Cuba und Guatemala. Munich, 1929.
Lentz (F. J.), Aus dem Hochlande der Maya. Stuttgart, 1930.
Mejia (J. V.), Geografia deseriptiva de la Republica de Guatemala. Guatemala, 1922.
Report of Council of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders.
Sapper (K.), Das nordliehe Mittel-Amerika. Reisen und Studien, 1888–95. Brunswick, 1897.—Ueber Gebirgsbau und Boden des Nördlichen Mittelamerika. Ergänzungsheft, Petermann’s Mitteil. Gotha, 1899.—Mittelamerikanisehe Reisen und Studien aus den Jahren 1888 bis 1900. Braunsehweig, 1902.—In den Vulcangebieten Mittelamerikas und Westindiens. Stuttgart, 1905.
Seier (Caecilie), Auf alten Wegen in Mexico und Guatemala, 1895–97. Berlin, 1900.— Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Reise durch Mexico und Guatemala. Part I. Berlin, 1901.
Stephan (C. H.), Le Guatemala Economique. Paris, 1906.
Villacorta (J. A.), Monografia del Departamento de Guatemala. Guatemala, 1926.
Winter (N. O.), Guatemala and her People of To-day. Boston, 1909.
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Epstein, M. (1933). Guatemala. In: Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270626_33
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