Una reflexión acerca del tribunal constitucional como defensor de las minorías

The constitutional debate about a constitutional court’s role in the political system of a state has prompted diverse points of view on the limits within wh ich such a court must operate. Within those debates, a special dispute has arisen with regard to the court’s protection of social minorities, who have found in the Constitutional Court a propitious forum in which to satisfy some of their claims. In this re spect, this paper tries to offer a description of the most important international debates about a constitutional court’s function, followed by a reflection on the process that has taken place in Colombia after the 1991 Constitution, when the Constitutiona l Court was created, as it pertains to the protection of the rights of social minorities.

• Fecha de publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali
• Repositorio: Vitela
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:vitela.javerianacali.edu.co:11522/148
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.javerianacali.edu.co/index.php/criteriojuridico/article/view/928; https://vitela.javerianacali.edu.co/handle/11522/148
• Palabra clave: Corte Constitucional; minorías sociales; Constitución; derechos; democracia; Constitutional Court; social minorities; Constitution; rights; democracy
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0