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Livingston Codes
The Livingston Codes were penal and procedural codes drafted by the American jurist Edward Livingston for Louisiana and adopted in the State of Guatemala in the 1830s under the liberal head of state Mariano Gálvez. They introduced trial by jury and other reforms modelled on Anglo-American law. Unpopular in the countryside, they fed the discontent that brought down Gálvez in the revolt led by Rafael Carrera in 1837–1838.
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