Constitucional Justice in Nicaragua

Abstract

The Constitutional Justice is undoubtedly a key figure in the Nicaraguan legal system. The
search for its origin constitutes an opportunity to learn about the advances in a subject that
is in constant development, which guarantees a true balance of powers; For this reason, this
article focuses on locating the general aspects from its origin, as well as the essential elements
that have been part of its evolution and that integrate it, addressing the Constitutional
framework of the Nicaraguan control system as the guarantee Constitution that protects the
supremacy of the Magna Carta. It is the Constitution itself as a superior hierarchical norm
that indicates the way to control the acts of public power, which are carried out through
diffuse or concentrated control and that in the case of Nicaragua is a combination of both.
The innovative contributions of the current Law 983, “Constitutional Justice Law”, which
protects the rights and guarantees of Nicaraguans, both individual rights, as well as social
and political rights contained in the Constitution. This research article contains an analysis
of the problems that were generated in Nicaragua by not having a single normative body of
the instruments of jurisdictional protection of the Constitution and the need for them to be
grouped together. The dialectic method and documentary research are used, for this purpose
the Political Constitution and national legislation were studied, as well as international
legislation and doctrine, all in relation to Constitutional Justice.