This article analyzes in a wide perspective the decisions of the Colombian Constitutional Court (1992-2004) regarding the limits of the Congress competences to reform the Constitution - competence vices -: the concepts of Constitution and their current meaning which increase judicial constitutional review, the constitutionalization of law and its relationship with judicial review of constitutional reform and its incidence on contemporary approaches to the notion of rigid Constitution, and tipologies of limitations to reform the Constitution proposed by some authors.