%0 Tesis de Pregrado %A Rueda Ordóñez, Bernarda Estefanía %E Benavides Ordóñez, Jorge Isaac %I Quito: Universidad de las Américas, 2014. %D 2015 %G %T La autonomía en la conformación de la Corte Constitucional como garantía del estado constitucional de derechos. %U http://dspace.udla.edu.ec/handle/33000/2028 %X This research goes around the relevance of provide to the Constitutional Court an adequate degree of legitimacy and independence highlighting the importance of the selection methods of constitutional judges to ensure their independence and, through this, ensure the Constitutional State rights and Justice. For this purpose is analyzed how the method of selection affects the independence of the judges of the Constitutional Court, which is the highest constitutional control organism and guardian of the Constitution, and then different selection systems are presented, in order to analyze the selection system in the Ecuadorian reality to finally lay out an alternative proposal for the selection and appointment of judges that are going to form the Constitutional Court in order to improve the system, from the opinion of writers, experience at the national level and internationally, giving rise to several criteria that can be implemented in pursuit of the coveted legitimacy, autonomy and independence of this organism.