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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1405-9193</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Cuestiones constitucionales]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Cuest. Const.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1405-9193</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1405-91932006000100003</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La dignidad de la persona en la Constitución española: naturaleza jurídica y funciones]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Batista Jiménez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Fernando]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Panamericana  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2006</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2006</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>14</numero>
<fpage>3</fpage>
<lpage>20</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1405-91932006000100003&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1405-91932006000100003&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1405-91932006000100003&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen ¿Es la dignidad de la persona un derecho fundamental, un valor, un principio o una regla? El autor diferencia cada uno de estos términos según la concepción de la Constitución española de 1978, concluyendo que la dignidad es un valor constitucional del cual se desprenden los derechos fundamentales, es un derecho a tener derechos. La diferencia entre un valor, un principio y una regla permite señalar su función fundamentadora, promocional y hermenéutica dentro del texto constitucional español.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Is personal dignity a fundamental right, value, principle or rule? The author makes some differences among each term according to the conception of 1978 Spanish Constitution, concluding that dignity is a constitutional value base on fundamental rights, it is a legal situation able to have other rights. Difference among values, principles and rules let to point their fundamental, promotional and interpretative function in Spanish Constitution.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Dignidad humana]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[derechos fundamentales]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[valor constitucional]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Human dignity]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[fundamental rights]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[constitutional value]]></kwd>
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