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Compulsory Ex Ante Control: Rise And Fall Of The Control Over The Legislator, Sergio Verdugo Sverdugor@Udd.Cl
Compulsory Ex Ante Control: Rise And Fall Of The Control Over The Legislator, Sergio Verdugo Sverdugor@Udd.Cl
Sergio Verdugo R.
The author criticizes the power of the Chilean Constitutional Court to exercise compulsory ex-ante control of statutes, established in article 93, number 1, of the Chilean Constitution. After clarifying its special juridical nature, he analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of this system of control, using national and foreign bibliography. The existence of a constitutional seal aggravates the disadvantages. Then, he dedicates a section to study the motivation of the judgments generated in this type of control, questioning its value. For such purposes he makes a theoretical and empirical study of the jurisprudence of the Chilean Constitutional Court in the last …
The Seal Of Constitutionality Of The Legal Provisions Declared Constitutional In The Preventive Control Process, Sergio Verdugo Sverdugor@Udd.Cl
The Seal Of Constitutionality Of The Legal Provisions Declared Constitutional In The Preventive Control Process, Sergio Verdugo Sverdugor@Udd.Cl
Sergio Verdugo R.
This work critically analyzes the amendment introduced by the Law 20.381 to the organic law of the Chilean Constitutional Court, in order to restore the original rule contained in 83, 3º of the Constitution, under which all points of law declared as constitutional by the Constitutional Court could not be challenged afterwards by a general action of unconstitutionality. This effect is called by the author “constitutional seal”. The author questions the constitutionality of the current rule, taking particularly into account its contextualization in the constitutional review system introduced by the constitutional reform of 2005. Then, he analyzes plausible interpretative alternatives …