Power and Constitution: The Argumentation of the Doctrine of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in the Peruvian Constitutional Tribunal Case-Law and Its Problems

• Autores: Valdivia Aguilar, Trilce, Chávez-Fernández Postigo, José
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2024
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/30021
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/30021
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Peruvian Constitutional Court; Jurisprudential argumentation; Conception of the Constitution; Unconstitutional constitutional reform; Constitutional identity; Tribunal Constitucional peruano; Argumentación jurisprudencial; Concepción de la Constitución; Reformas constitucionales inconstitucionales; Identidad constitucional

This work has the purpose of clarifying and critically evaluating the doctrine of «unconstitutional constitutional amendments» of the Peruvian Constitutional Tribunal. From a mainly constitutional perspective, although complimented with a legal philosophy approach, this work defends that the Constitutional Tribunal basically maintains a substantialist or value-based conception of the Constitution—where constitutional amendments are subject not only to institutional limits, but also to material limits. It is also evident that this implicit conception, despite its plausibility, suffers from important imbalances that need to be corrected.