Los derechos de los pobres en Colombia: Postura de la Corte Constitucional

Abstract

The 1991 Political Constitution of Colombia, it is established that the social market economy is the economic model that prevails in Colombia, in which the Social State of Law, under the principle of solidarity, seeks to protect and guarantee the fundamental rights of all the citizens. In this situation, the State acts through politicians and judges to protect the rights of the poor. Consequently, this research asks how the Social State of Law intends to guarantee the fundamental rights of the poor in Colombia? The objective is to collect and expose those theoretical, methodological and jurisprudential elements, through which the Colombian State seeks to guarantee the fundamental rights of the poor. Through a qualitative-interpretative method on the jurisprudential development, results are obtained that allow concluding that the Colombian State seeks to guarantee the fundamental rights of the poor through an instrument of political economy, around solidarity, which consists of legitimizing a process of redistribution of available wealth. The results of this research are unprecedented in the social sciences and constitute a central piece for the scientific study of poverty, since they articulate the economic, legal and political sciences, allowing the integration between poverty and wealth.