Prescindamos del poder constituyente en la creación constitucional. Los límites conceptuales del poder para reemplazar o reformar una constitución1

• Carlos Bernal Pulido ^[1]
  1. [1] Corte Constitucional de Colombia
• Localización: Anuario iberoamericano de justicia constitucional, ISSN 1138-4824, Nº. 22, 2018, págs. 59-99
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.18042/cepc/aijc.22.03
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Constitution-making (without) constituent power. On the conceptual boundaries of the power to replace or amendment the Constitution
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  • español

    El presente artículo expone argumentos en contra de la tesis según la cual el poder de creación de la constitución debe entenderse como el poder constituyente. Un análisis conceptual del poder para sustituir o reformar la constitución muestra que este entendimiento es incorrecto. En su lugar, el artículo avanza una concepción socioontológica del poder para reemplazar o revisar una constitución escrita como un poder deóntico limitado, cuyos titulares son los representantes políticos de los ciudadanos, a quienes la colectividad reconoce intencionalmente el estatus de creadores constitucionales y cuya función es institucionalizar el constitucionalismo. Esta concepción ilumina un enfoque más claro para comprender el poder de creación de la constitución y para evaluar la legitimidad de su ejercicio.

  • English

    This article makes a case against the wide-spread conception of the constitution- making power as constituent power. A conceptual analysis of the power to replace or revise the constitution shows that this understanding is incorrect. Instead, the article advances a socio-ontological conception of the power to replace or revise a written constitution, as a limited deontic power of citizens’ political proxyagents, who are collectively intentionally recognized as having the status of constitution- makers for performing the function of institutionalizing constitutionalism. This conception illuminates a clearer approach to understand the constitution-making power, and to evaluate the legitimacy of its exercises.

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