Constitution of Venezuela (1961)

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Constitution of the Republic of Venezuela
Created	January 23, 1961
Repealed	December 15, 1999
Location	Palacio Federal Legislativo
Author(s)	Senators and Deputies of the Congress of the Republic
Signatories	250 Legislators
Purpose	National Constitution to replace the 1953 Constitution

The Constitution of Venezuela of 1961 was approved on January 16, 1961, by the then Congress of the Republic (currently the National Assembly) with the affirmative vote of the four main political forces of the country at that time, Democratic Action, Democratic Republican Union, COPEI and the Communist Party of Venezuela. It came into force on January 23 of the same year in commemoration of the return to democracy in Venezuela on January 23, 1958. In December 1999 this text was repealed when the 1999 Constitution was approved by popular vote.

This Constitution was based on the principles of the 1947 Constitution that had been repealed in 1953 by the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez.