From an early stage, democracy has been in continuos crisis. This situation affected the way to comprehend the Constitutions that have been established in recent western tradition as well as in the development of the constitutionalism. This also meant the crisis of the projects of States that have appeared throughout history. Currently, the democratic challenge is to overcome the tribulations of the political dynamics and, basically, of the populism that has made a career in Latin America and, especially, in Colombian reality. Finally, for understanding the Colombian case, it is suggested an approach from the context of language because it permits the discovery of the depths and failures of the national project and, from this, to explain the democratic crisis in our country.