CONCEPT AND OWNERSHIP OF THE LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE. ACCURACY OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE
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Keywords

Laws
judicial process
judge-made law
popular iniciative
legislative initiative
reserved government initiative
popular initiative

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Restrepo Medina, M.A. (2009) “CONCEPT AND OWNERSHIP OF THE LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE. ACCURACY OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE”, Vniversitas, 58(118), pp. 229–245. Available at: https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/vnijuri/article/view/14518 (Accessed: 15 May 2025).
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Abstract

The Constitutional Court in its pronouncements has been responsible for defining the scope of the legislative initiative, setting the legal concept of this constitutional allocation and narrowing the exercise by their owners, mainly members of the Congress, the National Government, particularly with regard to tabling bills its sole initiative, and the popular initiative legislation. This article is a preview of the results of the research project called “Constitutional Details on the Legislative Process in Colombia”, developed within the Institutional Development Component of the Line of Trends and Prospects for the Administrative Law Group for Research in Public Law the Faculty of Law at the Universidad del Rosario. 

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