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Este artículo demuestra la formación autodidacta de los autores de los Comentarios al Código penal del Siglo XIX, y su escasa influencia en las obras de su época y de las siguientes, lo que se atribuye a los (malos) hábitos intelectuales de la formación universitaria nacional más que a una supuesta falta de valor de la información y argumentaciones que ellos ofrecenThis paper demonstrates the self-taught formation of the authors of the Commentaries to the penal Code of Century XIX, and its little influence in works of its time and the following ones, which is is attributed to the intellectual (bad) habits of the national university formation than to an supposed lack of value of the information and argumentations contained in them

One optimistic expression that hides one of the most recurrent political phenomena in Colombian history was uttered by constitutionalist lawyer Diego Uribe Vargas: eternal "loyalty to the law and respect for juridical norms", reinforced by the idea of affection for democracy and its institutions. This situation contrasts dramatically with the political and partisan crises and the perennial constitutional and legal changes, which allows for an approximation to the so-called authoritarian use of the law as a consequence of the predominance of politics over the law; of the personality of whoever represents an institution and the will of whoever rules, over the theoretical constitutional mandate, of the rite that hides powerful interests. In order to unveil the phenomenon mentioned above, this article reviews two constitutional processes of the 19th century that shaped the political regime and whose permanent features, paraphrasing Hernando Valencia Villa, have perpetuated themselves and have resisted any change from above. Perhaps 1991 cracked the system to a certain extent but only time, the long time, could make it evident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]