Alquimia constitucional

Authors

  • Francisco Alejandro Olmos de la Torre Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5347/isonomia.57/2022.483

Keywords:

Supreme Court, Electrical Industry Law, voting methodology, qualified voting, mayeutics, procedural truth, material truth

Abstract

Constitutional Alchemy

Socratitos is an irreverent thinker whose concerns in a few but variegated matters, among them, the unsuspected logic of law, seem, all the time, to tend more to humor than to reason. In this fake dialogue, Arturo Zaldívar, President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, discusses with that unoriginal carácter, what is the truth about the votes cast to invalidate articles 4, section VI, and 26 of the Electrical Industry Law, in the “acción de inconstitucionalidad” 64/2021, resolved by the Supreme Court on April 7, 2022. After apparently being refuted, one by one, the arguments of the the Justice to justify why the qualified majority of eight votes was not reached —as some academics and political actors claimed— but only the simple one of seven votes, the procedural truth in any way ends up imposing itself, leaving the question about the material truth deposed, in the style of the Platonic dialogues of youth that the author pretends to emulate.

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Published

2022-12-30

How to Cite

Olmos de la Torre, F. A. (2022). Alquimia constitucional. Isonomía - Revista De teoría Y filosofía Del Derecho, (57), 129–146. https://doi.org/10.5347/isonomia.57/2022.483

Issue

No. 57 (2022): Fall

Section

Forum

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