Historical Constitutional Arrangements of Portugal and South Africa

Constitutional regimes and negotiating bodies of the twentieth century that governed or reshaped the political order of Portugal and South Africa and no longer operate. An entry belongs here when its cited source describes a regime or forum that has ended and that set the terms of a constitutional order. The Estado Novo was the authoritarian corporatist regime that ruled Portugal from 1933 to 1974, and the Convention for a Democratic South Africa was the negotiating forum that met in 1991 and 1992 to settle the passage from apartheid to a democratic constitution. The group describes how each body was built and what it decided, not whether its outcomes were just.