1830 Constitution
Art. 12. To enjoy citizenship rights, one must:
1. be married, or older than twenty-two years;
2. have real estate valued at more than 300 pesos, or exercise a profession or useful industry without being subjected to someone else such as a domestic servant or day laborer;
3. know to read and to write.
1835 Constitution
Art. 9. Active citizens are those who meet the following qualities:
1. are married or older than eighteen years;
2. have real estate valued at more than 200 pesos, or exercise a profession or useful industry without being subjected to someone else such as a servant, houseworker, or day laborer;
3. know to read and to write.
1843 Constitution
Art. 9. Citizens are those who meet the following qualities:
1. are married or older than eighteen years;
2. have real estate valued at more than 200 pesos, or exercise a scientific profession or useful industry in the mechanical or liberal arts without being subjected to someone else such as a servant, houseworker, or day laborer;
3. know to read and to write.
1845 Constitution
Art. 9. Citizens of Ecuador are those who meet the following conditions:
1. be married or older than twenty-one years;
2. have real estate valued at more than 200 pesos, or exercise a scientific profession or useful industry in the mechanical or liberal arts without being subjected to someone else such as a servant, houseworker, or day laborer;
3. know to read and to write.
1850 Constitution
Art. 8. Citizens of Ecuador are Ecuadorians who meet the following conditions:
1. are eighteen years old and married, or twenty-one and single;
2. have real estate valued at more than 200 pesos, or exercise a useful profession or industry without being subjected to someone else such as a houseworker, or day laborer;
3. know to read and to write.
1852 Constitution
Art. 9. Citizens of Ecuador are those who meet the following conditions:
1. be married or older than twenty-one years;
2. have real estate valued at more than 200 pesos, or exercise a scientific profession or useful industry in the mechanical or liberal arts without being subjected to someone else such as a servant, houseworker, or day laborer;
3. know to read and to write.
1861 Constitution
Art. 8. To be a citizen it is required to be married or older than twenty-one years and know how to read and write.
1869 Constitution
Art. 8. To be a citizen it is required:
1. be Catholic;
2. To know to read and to write;
3. be married or older than twenty-one years.
1878 Constitution
Art. 12. To be a citizen it is required to be married or older than twenty-one years, and to know how to read and write.
1883 Constitution
Art. 9. Citizens are male Ecuadorians who know how to read and write, and have turned twenty-one years, or are or have been married.
1897 Constitution
Art. 8. To be a citizen it is required to be eighteen years old, and to know how to read and write.
1906 Constitution
Art. 13. To be a citizen it is required to be twenty-one years old, and to know how to read and write.
1929 Constitution
Art. 13. Any Ecuadorian, man or woman, who is older than twenty-one and knows how to read and write is a citizen.
1945 Constitution
Art. 15. Every Ecuadorian, man or woman, older than eighteen years who knows how to read and write, are citizens.
1946 Constitution
Art. 17. Every Ecuadorian, man or woman, older than eighteen years who knows how to read and write, are citizens, and, in consequence, as a general rule, can elect and be elected or named as a public officeholder.
1967 Constitution
Art. 21. Ecuadorian citizens are those older than eighteen years that know how to read and write and are, therefore, in aptitude of exercising the rights established in the present Constitution.
1979 Constitution
Art. 6. Ecuadorians are such by birth or naturalization. All Ecuadorians are citizens and, as such, they enjoy the rights established in this Constitution that will be exercised in the cases and with the requirements determined by the law.
1998 Constitution
Art. 6. Ecuadorians are such by birth or naturalization. All Ecuadorians are citizens and, as such, they enjoy the rights established in this Constitution that will be exercised in the cases and with the requirements determined by the law.
Fuentes: Federico E. Trabucco, Constituciones de la República del Ecuador (Quito: Universidad Central, Editorial Universitaria, 1975); Ramiro Borja y Borja, Las constituciones del Ecuador (Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispánica, 1951); Constitución Política de 1979; Constitución Política de 1998
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