Problemas contemporáneos del control constitucional en Colombia

Abstract

This article conforms the written version of the post presented by the author at the Seminar of “Compared Law” that took place in March at the Saint Tomas University (Universidad Santo Tomás). The main thesis of the author sustains that the Nature of the Social State of Law, defined by the 1991 Constitution in order to define the Colombian State, determined the dynamic of the Constitutional Control in charge of the Constitutional Court, which has brought different types of sentences that are not only excluding the order of the rules that are incompatible with the Constitution, but, in the field of the fundamental rights.

Keywords

• Estado Social de Derecho, legislador negativo, legislador positivo, nuevas categorias jurídicas