The late Giovanni Sartori once declared in a television interview that assemblies are terrible Constitution writers. The 1949 Constituent Assembly of Costa Rica must have been an exception. It produced a coherent and foresighted constitutional text that is still in force today. Some 62 constitutional reforms have not altered its original vision but rather refined it. The 1949 Constitution does have its critics, but it is undeniable that under this Constitution, Costa Rica has had uninterrupted elections since 1953, making it Latin America’s oldest electoral democracy, both in procedural and substantive terms (Petri, 2023).