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Abstract

This work seeks to generate in the reader the concern about the relevance, timeliness and material need, regarding public policies that deepen and make a reality the Social State of Law established by the constituent in the 1991 Constitution in Colombia. Despite the thirty years of its promulgation, and in the face of the still unresolved problems of inequity and wide belts of poverty that some sectors of the country experience, a situation that impacts on coexistence and social balance, it is necessary to establish public policies that strengthen the constitutional postulates of peaceful coexistence and general prosperity, among others. And it is necessary, today more than ever, since the supervening crisis generated by Covid-19 has led the country to unusual levels of unemployment and poverty. We consider that the guidelines that emanate from the Social State of Law adopted by the 1991 Constituent Assembly are a good tool to combat both the problems of the crisis and the historical scourges that the nation is still experiencing and put it on the brink of the beginning of another crisis institutional.

Keywords: Social State of Law, Constitution, State, inequalities, poverty, Constitutional Court.