In this article it is stated that the resource of grievances, or appeal, typical of the Old Spanish Regime, was also used in the Constitutional State of Cundinamarca, that existed from 1811 to 1816. 1 2 To demonstrate this hypothesis will be discussed at the end of work, the resource of grievances that put the citizen Manuel Lopez de la Castilla against an Order of Good Governance issued by the judges of the town of El Chaparral, for be contrary to the Constitution and human rights. This legal fossil goes to show two things: in first place, that there was a practice of constitutional justice in Cundinamarca; and that the resource of grievances is, in fact, history of the private action of administrative litigation.