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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 …