Ángela Acuña Braun
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Ángela Acuña Braun, also known as Ángela Acuña de Chacón,, a Costa Rican lawyer, women's rights pioneer and ambassador, was the first woman to graduate as a lawyer in Central America. Orphaned at the
Ángela Acuña Braun
The lyceum, where Acuna studied between 1912 and 1913, pictured in 2010
Constitution of Costa Rica
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The Constitution of Costa Rica is the supreme law of Costa Rica. At the end of the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War, José Figueres Ferrer oversaw the Costa Rican Constitutional Assembly, which drafted the d
Ángela Acuña Braun
…to be legal proxies, serve as procuradores, and be witnesses. In 1917, Acuña convinced Alejandro Alvarado García, the chief drafter of reforms to the Constitution of Costa Rica enacted that year, to include language allowing limited participation of women in the voting process. The proposal stated that to be eligible, women…
Pact of Concord
1869 Constitution
1871 Constitution
1949 publication