Os direitos fundamentais sociais e o controle judicial das políticas públicas

Abstract

The following paper aims at the study of Fundamental Rights, especially of a social nature which ensure availability to health, education, housing and food. The study of these constitutionally consecrated rights focuses on the identification of the rights that can be immediately demanded from the Public Power, even if by means of judicial intervention and without legislative intermediation. It is recognized, moreover, that the full and immediate efficacy of fundamental social rights stems from the normative configuration of each of the rights secured by the Constitution itself, which permits the conclusion that some rights, although provided in the Constitution, demand political decision-making to complete the normative framework, necessary to the enforcement of these rights, even if they are not mere future commitments. On the other hand, the study analyzes the feasibility of jurisdictional control over public policies, either in the event of omission from the legislator or another governing body in charge, or in the event of inadequacy or delay in execution of public policies, which already shows the political decision, or, lastly, in the event of insufficiency of public policies carried out by the Public Power, always observing the limits of jurisdictional intervention, when admitted