This research seeks to analyze and describe the production of the Colombian constitutional doctrine from books on constitutional law written in the period 1980-2000, by Colombian authors, in order to determine the foreign influences and the local production of knowledge in Colombian constitutional law.Through a study of citizen quantification and its corresponding composition of networks of national and foreign authors, the methodological path was sought to identify the main concepts that local constitutionalists addressed.According to these, the concepts that concentrate his intellectual interest are: constitution, state, presidential power and states of exception.It is important to highlight the different concepts that Colombian constitutionalists focus on are in close synchrony with multiple milestones of the Colombian constitutional process, which covers the period from the foundation of the republic in 1810 until the promulgation of the Political Constitution of 1991.This is how the concepts of legal transplants, the circulation of ideas, the categories of production and reception sites, the transnational theory of law, on the one hand, and on the other, the categories of intellectual profession, social fields, knowledge networks and developments and scientific evolution, exactly defined to define methodological routes oriented to the same objective: to generate the base on quality, subsequent research works can be undertaken where some aspects of Colombian constitutional thinking are a matter of interest in studies that are carried out on comparative constitutional law.The different methodological and conceptual tools account for a profession intellectually interested in constitutional issues, our contributions and content found the Colombian constitutional law as a field under construction, therefore, it was necessary to discover their contributions, a basis for the reconstruction of local legal theory in constitutional matters.