Constitutional Court of Colombia
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| State level | Jurisdiction |
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| position | Supreme Court of Colombia |
| Supervisory authority (s) | Constituent Assembly |
| founding | 4th July 1991 |
| Headquarters | Palacio de Justicia, Calle 12 No. 7-65, Bogotá DC |
| Chair | Jorge Luis Quiroz Inglés |
| Website | cortesuprema.gov.co |
The Constitutional Court of Colombia ( Spanish Corte Constitucional de Colombia ) represents and guarantees the constitutional jurisdiction of the Republic of Colombia . It is located in the Palacio de Justicia in the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá . It was created by Chapter IV of the Colombian Constitution of 1991 and was first installed on February 17, 1992. The Constitutional Court replaced the Constitutional Chamber at the time, which was dependent on the Supreme Court.
history
In the 1950s, violence between political parties dominated. For more than thirty years, Colombia lived in a constant state of emergency with an increasing concentration of power away from the legislature and towards the executive. The outcome of this Violencia was a national pact , which from 1958 to 1974 divided political power equally between the liberal and conservative parties .
In 1991 a Constituent Assembly , with seventy members directly elected by the people, had enacted a new and meaningful constitution in Colombia. After six months of deliberation, the Constituent Assembly adopted the new constitution in July 1991. The German Federal Constitutional Court and the Spanish Tribunal Constitucional had great influence.
Some of the most important constitutional changes were the inclusion of an extensive charter of fundamental rights and the equally demanding establishment of an independent constitutional jurisdiction . That was at the expense of the Supreme Court, the Corte Suprema de Justicia , which z. B. lost its competence for the abstract control of norms to the constitutional court.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Corte Suprema elige presidente elespectador.com, accessed on March 25, 2020 (Spanish)
- ↑ Rodolfo Arango in “The Colombian Constitutional Court and Social Rights” jstor.org, accessed March 23, 2020
Web links
Coordinates: 4 ° 35 ′ 56.1 ″ N , 74 ° 4 ′ 31.7 ″ W.