Democracia y crisis : una breve valoración de la democracia constitucional en tiempos de pandemia.

Abstract

Democracy is a civil ethical procedure for solving problems, differences, and making decisions through majority rule. This is a basic concept of democracy. Democracy is regulated and protected through the constitutions that stipulate it as a structural principle alongside the separation of powers, the principle of legality, human rights and their guarantees. Furthermore, democracy is the most legitimate method for the development of constitutions. In fact, it is the development and practice of democracy that ensures that the constitution is a living process (Ackerman, 2011), a constant evolution, and that it can better adapt to the challenges of events that seek to displace, replace or mutate it. , and even ignore the political morality that the constitution imposes on democracy (Nino, 1997). That is, democracy cannot be a radical that makes decisions above the rights of minorities, without social and institutional deliberation, only protected by the fact that it is a majority decision.

Keywords

democracy

constitution

pandemic

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