The Constitutional Responsibility of the Ministers of the Constitutional Court. A proposal of origin of the constitutional accusation

Authors

  • Jaime Gajardo Falcón Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This article has a dual purpose. First, in a theoretical level, to state that within the framework of a constitutional democracy all public authorities must be constitutionally responsible for their actions in the exercise of their functions, including the Ministers of the Constitutional Court. Secondly and in the dogmatic plane, to maintain that the Ministers of the Constitutional Court in the exercise of their functions can be accused constitutionally according to the general mechanism that contemplates the Constitution for this, that is, the one established in the article 52 number 2 letter c) of the Political Constitution of the Republic and known as «constitutional accusation».

Keywords:

Constitutional and políticas responsability; constitutional accusation; Constitutional Court; constitutional justice