Fuerza normativa de la constitución y judicialización de los derechos sociales de prestación

This paper critically examines one of the key factors to judicial activism, namely, the legal character of the Constitution. Throughout a comparative analysis, the author puts under question the premise that all constitutio¬nal provisions are judicially enforceable by its own nature. Specifically, t...

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Main Author: Bertelsen Repetto, Raúl
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=7125248
Source:Revista Derecho Público Iberoamericano, ISSN 0719-2959, Nº. 15, 2019, pags. 115-151
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Summary: This paper critically examines one of the key factors to judicial activism, namely, the legal character of the Constitution. Throughout a comparative analysis, the author puts under question the premise that all constitutio¬nal provisions are judicially enforceable by its own nature. Specifically, this work looks carefully into the legal status of social rights and argues from different perspectives that Congress and not the Judiciary has the primacy on the configuration of such positive rights. Consequently, judges are bounded by statutory law when it comes to decide what the scope of social right is