The territorial development of the Social Constitution

Abstract

Abstract:
The Spanish Constitution of 1978 recognizes a wide catalog of social rights, but has not provided effective instruments for its legal protection. Constitutionalised social rights are shaped above all in the form of principles and mandates directed to public authorities, with little possibility of being used in the control of the constitutionality of norms. The economic crisis and the constitutionalisation of the principle of budgetary stability have further weakened its normative potentiality. The implementation of the Autonomous State has resulted in a high dose of decentralization in terms of social rights. A constitutional reform is necessary to strengthen the effectiveness of the rights of the Welfare state.