The exceptional legal in Colombia, is one of the figures who has most affected the full consolidation of a democratic exercise in the state, its constitutional viability is in tension with the model of social and democratic state of law, both in its fundamental components (liberal Democratic and social) and its aims, not only in relation to public policy and external war, but in social, economic and ecological state of emergency, which allows you to exercise the President of the Republic extraordinary powers when there are supervening events that seriously affect the order mentioned above. Although one of the objectives of the the to limit its use based on the judgments of constitutionality. This control is of great importance since it avoids many abuses and imbalances in the exercise of power. However, the validity of this figure will continue to restrict democratic