Abstract

DAVILA S, Carlos Mario. CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES IN 1971 IN FRANCE AND IN 1991 IN COLOMBIA. AN ANALYSIS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE THEORY OF JURIDICAL REVOLUTION. Vniversitas [online]. 2013, n.126, pp.123-163. ISSN 0041-9060.

France revised its Constitution in 1971, but the modification was not carried out by one of the organs authorised by that same text. Colombia replaced its Constitution in 1991, but did these constitutional changes comply with the laws of the time? The present paper is an overview of these juridical transformations from the point of view of the theory ofjuridical revolution, which is applied in order to determine the new legal basis of each of these legal systems.

Keywords : Constitutional law; theory of legal revolution; basis of validity; basis rule; judicial review; Constitutional law; judicial review; effectiveness and validity of law; constitutional changes; Colombia; France.

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