Jurisprudential scope of the reserved legislative initiative of the National Government

Despite the fact that constitutionalism Colombian general rule is the principle of freedom of legislative initiative of the members of Congress in the formation of laws, the Constitution has established with respect to certain matters that the initiative rests on an exclusive basis to the National Government. In that vein, this paper presents the arguments employed by the Constitutional Court to clarify the scope of application of the grounds that limit legislative initiative in the form reserved for the National Government.