La jurisprudencia del Tribunal Constitucional sobre los derechos históricos de los territorios forales: aspectos generales y proyección sobre las competencias estatutarias de raíz histórica

Abstract

Over nearly four decades, the Constitutional Court has been interpreting and applying, through the power vested therein, both the First Additional Provision of the Constitution and the provisions of the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country and the Statute of Autonomy of Navarre, which update historical rights belonging to traditional regional territories. The number of decisions reached is already quite high and covers both the more general aspects of the regional clause of the supreme law and the scope of the most important historic rights in an updated version. As a consequence, legally studying the historic rights today implies, to a great extent, a critical dialogue with the judgements and orders of the Constitutional Court. The aim of this paper is to offer an overview of that case law doctrine.