The Judicial Function

Abstract

The French philosopher and politician Charles Louis de Secondat (better known as Montesquieu) in his work The spirit of the laws, raises the theory of the separation of powers that undoubtedly has a preponderant role in the development of política! modernity, an extreme that guarantees particularly independence in the administration of justice, concept of necessary link with the judicial function, as a real guarantee of democracy. To achieve the judicial function of administering justice, initially one must go to the vocation, understood as that interna! call to choose a certain activity, which in the concrete case is the legal career, to later achieve the degree and thus  exercise one of the sub-vocations that the author raises to us, such as the lawyer, judge, university professor or notary. In the event of following the judicial function of the justice operator, its conceptualizatión should be considered from the perspective of the Philosophical Law, then focus on the jurisdictional authority, the same for the fulfillment of its purposes should be conscious of its duties functional and legal, finally materialize in theirfaculties that make the judge a citizen with multiple virtues at the serví ce of the community.