Abstract

OVALLE FAVELA, José. The constitutional controversies and the independent constitutional entities. Cuest. Const. [online]. 2011, n.25, pp.101-127. ISSN 1405-9193.

Analyzes the evolution of the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation regarding the standing that independent constitutional entities have to file "constitutional controversies" (controversias constitucionales), the is, the procedures that can be filed by the branches of government, states and public entities before the Supreme Court, with the purpose of determining whether the acts or legislation passed by other states and public entities invade the authority that the Political Constitution confers to them. This article also summarizes the origin and development of those controversies in mexican law, its classification and its object, the doctrine and the jurisprudence concerning the standing to file them.

Keywords : constitutional controversies; Supreme Court of Justice; independent constitutional entities; standing; jurisprudence.