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The Institute of Services to the Nation (ISN), is a Guatemala based organization. ISN´s active commitment to change the Civil Law tradition supports a different view on the solution to traditional political problems that Guatemala and Latin America face.

Traditional politics are interested in signaling the decay of current institutions and organization as a nation, ISN is rather inclined to show the conflicting views of that current platform with common sense and with traditional international constitutional tradition.

That leads to underscore the function of rules and the idea of law in society. The disbelief and transgression of the State of its very laws promotes the destruction of institutions and good manners. This basic idea is responsible for our seemingly insurmountable problems as it translates into the fundamental philosophy that shapes our institutions and our attitudes. ISN is pleased to focus its attention on something that usually goes unnoticed but that has so much potential not only to explain the pattern of our institutions and behavior, but also to show the ways in which change can be attained.

The use of law as a means of social control meets natural resistance and disobedience. Law as a liberating tool to practice responsible citizenship is unknown in societies organized under a Civil Law tradition.

Freedom of conscience, in Western political thought, among other things, points out to the immorality of living under institutions that undermine the inner self and the conscience of every man, subjecting him to different forms of servitude. One of those servitudes, in a Civil Law context, is living under a social and political organization that allows breaking the law as a life style.

This analysis suggests to sensible readers the effect of this on social traditional morals and principles, on responsible citizenship and on economics as a fundamental means to promote development. The absence of Common Law results into legal positivism which undermines personal liberties. The legal obligation to uphold a system that corrupts men and women undermines freedom of conscience, the very basis of Western political thought and constitutional tradition.