Keywords
Law
autoritarism
colombian constitutonalism Constitutional lawsuit
Century XIX
Constitution 1821
Organic decree law’s dictatorship 1828
Constitution 1863
Constitution 1886
Constitution 1991.
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Abstract
One optimistic expression that hides one of the most recurrent political phenomena in Colombianhistory was uttered by constitutionalist lawyer Diego Uribe Vargas: eternal “loyalty to the law and respect for juridical norms”, reinforcedby the idea of affection for democracy and its institutions. This situation contrasts dramatically with the political and partisan crises and the perennial constitutional and legal changes, which allows for an approximation to the so–called authoritarian use of the law as a consequence of the predominance of politics over the law; of the personality of whoever representsan institution and the will of whoever rules, over the theoretical constitutional mandate, of the rite that hides powerful interests. In order to unveil the phenomenon mentioned above, this article reviews two constitutional processes of the 19th century that shaped the political regime and whose permanent features, paraphrasing Hernando Valencia Villa, have perpetuated themselves and have resisted any change from above. Perhaps 1991 cracked the system to a certain extent but only time, the long time, could make it evident.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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