El Estado Constitucional Colombiano en la Periferia. Tomo 1

The main objective of the book that is now being presented to the academic community is to contribute to the analysis and discussion that must be carried out on a transcendental issue for the Colombian legal world, as it addresses a foundational element of our legal-political organization, such as the character of Social state that our constitution enshrines throughout its text, and what it uses as a defining principle in article 1. The Department of Constitutional Law of the Externado de Colombia University made a bet that did not seem easy, but that we considered was the only appropriate way to address this issue: evaluate and value the development and real realization that in specific situations or with respect to groups specific reasons some of the ESC rights have had, recognized in our constitutional order, after almost 30 years since the 1991 Constitution came into effect. I bet that, expressed in this way, it deserves some explanation.

 With the aim of making an approach that was useful and practical, as long as it offered the evaluation of factual situations or conditions of groups or communities settled in the territory - as opposed to the simple analysis of sentences, or normative bodies -, the volume that is now presents collect different collaborations that revolve around the transcendental issue of the presence of the State in the territory. Transcendental, then, as evidenced by the figures, it is in rural areas where there are higher levels of needs related to respect and protection but, above all, the realization of ESC rights.