ABSTRACT
In the Spanish constitutional system the Constitutional Court has a fundamental role. The Constitutional Court is responsible for the solution of conflicts of powers that can arise between the State and the Autonomous Communities or between the Autonomous Communities themselves and also the conflicts between the constitutional bodies of the State. Likewise, control of the constitutionality of International Treaties also falls to the Constitutional Court, which can also be activated as a preventive control. Regarding matters relating to immigration, the Constitutional Court has generated a consolidated doctrine of the development of immigrants' rights, in line with constitutional principles and, especially, with the dignity of the person and with the guarantee of the essential content of rights. Some media have placed the question of terrorism at the heart of a political strategy that is more than dubious from the constitutional point of view, promoting the idea that any defence of constitutional guarantees must be relativised in the anti-terrorist cause.
