Tag: substitution of the constitution
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The Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment Doctrine and the Reform of the Judiciary in Colombia
—Mario Cajas Sarria, Icesi University, Colombia In the past few months, the Colombian Constitutional Court surprised the government, citizens, and legal scholars by issuing two decisions which struck down two bodies created by legislative act 1 of 2015, a constitutional reform that aimed at a broad constitutional overhaul of the separation of powers.