Power and Constitution: The Argumentation of the Doctrine of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in the Peruvian Constitutional Tribunal Case-Law and Its Problems
This work has the purpose of clarifying and critically evaluating the doctrine of «unconstitutional constitutional amendments» of the Peruvian Constitutional Tribunal. From a mainly constitutional perspective, although complimented with a legal philosophy approach, this work defends that the&nbs...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Country: | Perú |
| Institution: | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Repository: | Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/30021 |
| Online Access: | http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/30021 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Peruvian Constitutional Court Jurisprudential argumentation Conception of the Constitution Unconstitutional constitutional reform Constitutional identity Tribunal Constitucional peruano Argumentación jurisprudencial Concepción de la Constitución Reformas constitucionales inconstitucionales Identidad constitucional |
| Summary: | This work has the purpose of clarifying and critically evaluating the doctrine of «unconstitutional constitutional amendments» of the Peruvian Constitutional Tribunal. From a mainly constitutional perspective, although complimented with a legal philosophy approach, this work defends that the Constitutional Tribunal basically maintains a substantialist or value-based conception of the Constitution—where constitutional amendments are subject not only to institutional limits, but also to material limits. It is also evident that this implicit conception, despite its plausibility, suffers from important imbalances that need to be corrected. |
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