Legislative power, types of law and internal relations in the national law

Abstract

This research reviews the types of laws in the Chilean legal system in order to establish its nature and principles which should solve the problem of clash of norms, keeping in mind the criteria of legal doctrine and the jurisprudence of the Chilean Constitutional Court. The author maintains the inexistence of substantive concept of the types of laws and that the relationship between these laws must be resolved, as a rule, under the principle of the procedure or, in some cases, the principle of hierarchy.