The constitutional reform of 1910: One hundredth anniversary of the rule of law in Colombia

Abstract

The paper autlines the importance the to National Public Law takes the Constitution’s Amendment from 1910. It states that the Colombian rule or Law begins properly with this Legislation Act trough with submitted the exercise of politicak power to the empire of law. In current words, only at the year was possible to prevail the principle of the legal sovereignty even over the politic’s. Describes and analyzes tow aspects considerer more transcendental of that work, like are the stablishment of judicial control of constitutionality and the stipulation, as a Constitutional canon, of the inviolability of the human life’s principle, by settling down the prohibition of the death penalty. It points at haw such amendment got to make the judge as the key figure of the political society by imposing him as the natural defender of the Constitution, as guarantor of the citizen´s rights and of the very same democratic system.