Resumen

LOPEZ DAZA, Germán Alfonso. Colombian constitutional judge as the positive legislator: a governement of the judges?. Cuest. Const. [online]. 2011, n.24, pp.169-193. ISSN 1405-9193.

The constitutional justice in the world has made a remarkable evolution and Colombia has not been immune to this global trend. Since coming into operation in 1992, the Colombian Constitutional Court has been a leader in the development of the Charter of 1991 to the point that has come to affect significantly basic assumptions of former untouchables legal, as legal certainty. Under the principles of defending the Constitution, the Rule of law and fundamental rights, the jurisprudence of the Colombian Constitutional Court decisions faced by the other powers and by judges and magistrates, which has led to the nickname of government of the judges.

Palabras llave : Constitutional Justice; Constitutional Court; manipulation of statements; judicial activism; positive legislator; government of judges.