CRITICISMS OF THE DIRECT APPEAL BEFORE THE JORDANIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Abstract

Constitutions vary in granting the authority to exercise the power to challenge the constitutionality of laws between individuals, bodies and the head of state. Some of the constitutions have granted cancellation control or direct appeal of unconstitutionality to the head of state, government and bodies only without individuals, given that the type of control that followed is cancellation control, so the research aimed to clarify Type of control over the constitutionality of laws and regulations in Jordan and development who obtained this oversight, and the negatives and positives in the approach of the Jordanian legislator to limit the method of direct appeal to public authorities without individuals, and the most important results reached is that the Jordanian constitutional legislator adopted a method of limiting the power of direct appeal to the authorities without individuals, and this limitation was limited to the Senate And the House of Representatives and the Council of Ministers, while maintaining the power of individuals to indirectly challenge the unconstitutionality of laws by means of a secondary defense. Constitutional oversight is the protection of individual rights and the safeguarding of constitutional legitimacy.