Legal Scope of the Response to the Rights of Petition

Abstract

The right to petition as a fundamental right contained in the Political Constitution is still relevant today for citizens who need to submit a petition to the administrative jurisdiction. Legal and jurisprudential components are described on the responses to the petitions, which in specific cases manage to materialize in administrative acts, resulting in subsequent legal effects. The research model implemented is of a documentary nature, including legal analysis on the study of the proposed object. The product of the investigation has indicated that the replicas of the requests in matters of: humanitarian aid, administrative reparation, recognition of vital and inalienable rights, among others. They are configured, given the circumstances, in an authentic administrative act and therefore the will of the administration produces legal consequences in the responses to certain requests. Knowing this, the possibility of obtaining a transcendent solution by the administrative authority is created in order to safeguard the interests and rights of those administered.