The position of the Estatutos de Autonomia within the constitutional system. (A commentary of the Constitutional Court decision 31/2010, 28 June 2010)

This work analyses the position of the Estatutos de Autonomia within the constitutional system that the Constitutional Court ruled in the Spanish Constitutional Court decision 31/2010. This issue is essential to the future of the Estado Autonomico. For this reason in this work are studied both the legal nature of the Estatutos de Autonomia accoding to their enactment and reform process, and the function of the Estatutos de Autonomia as part of the bloque de constitucionalidad. This study contributes to draw an outline of the main characters and of the concept of the Estatuto de Autonomia, which the Spanish Constitutional Court decision 31/2010 lacks. After that the work analyses from a critical point of view both the role that the Constitutional Justice have to fulfil regarding the configuration of the State and the role that the decision establishes to it. The forecasts are discouraging. The constitutional case law and the Estatutos de Autonomia are essentials to the right development of the State but the Spanish Constitutional Court decision STC 31/2010 removes their potentiality and the capability to face this fact.