The control of conventionality versus the constitutional concentrated control in Ecuador

Abstract

The Principle of Conventionality allows us to examine adequate compliance with the international treaties of all States Parties, members of the American Convention on Human Rights, created in San José, Costa Rica in November 1969. In this way it is vital that the authorities – especially the judicial authorities – comply with these provisions, according with the articles 1 and 2 of this instrument. Ecuador requires the incessant search to collate domestic legislation and the international treaties that have been corroborated to date, and to apply in a timely manner the accentuated in the aforementioned articles. The System of Concentrated Control of the Constitution in Ecuador is based on the fact that there must be only one a maximum specialized and autonomous must be only one – the Constitutional Court – which will have the competence to decide in the last and final instance all issues constitutional matters, a diffuse control. In this way, the judges of the Constitutional Court are empowered to control the he constitutionality of the infra-constitutional norms invoked within a judicial process.