Functions
Its main functions according to the Article 241 of the Colombian constitution are:
- to decide on unconstitutionality claims raised by citizens.
- decide on national referendums.
- unconstitutional claims raised by citizens regarding government decrees with law enforcement.
- Decide on unconstitutional demands against Laws.
- Decide on unexcused absences of people required to inquests by any of the commissions in the Congress of Colombia.
- Decide on the constitutionality of legislative decrees that the government declares during "states of exception".
- Decide on the constitutionality of Law drafts which may have been objected by the government as unconstitutional and the drafts of statutory laws.
- Review judicial decisions related to the acción de tutela.
- Decide on executability of international treaties and the laws that approve them. By Decree 2067 of September 4, 1991 the state of Colombia adopts a procedural regime of the judgments and acts that must be presented to the Constitutional Court of Colombia.
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