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The objective dimension of fundamental rights as a parameter of material legitimacy in the Constitutional rule of law

Authors

  • Catalina Salem Gesell

Abstract

The present article seeks to develop the concept of the objective dimension of fundamental rights and how this dimension becomes a criterion of material legitimacy in the constitutional rule of law. Forward, the article analyses two Constitutional Court’s decisions which endorse this criterion in relation with (1) the legislator; (2) as an argument in favor of the necessity of constitutional jurisdiction; and (3) as a limit in the efficacy of fundamental rights.

Keywords:

Derechos fundamentales, neoconstitucionalismo, orden de valores