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Tribunal Supremo de Justicia

Decides what it means

Venezuela's supreme court. Its historical site carries a legislation section with the full text of the Constitution as reprinted in Gaceta Oficial Extraordinaria N° 5.453 of 24 March 2000, and the texts of the laws governing the judiciary. It is used here to corroborate the constitutional articles quoted from the OAS copy, which is the only clean text layer we could reach.

A court, which decides what an instrument means. Its answers bind, but only on the questions actually put to it.

historico.tsj.gob.ve

Cannot be cited for

Its legislation section holds only judiciary-related statutes and the Constitution; there is no migration, tax or customs law there, and the directory itself answers 403 while leaves.shtml is a 404. Its server sends an incomplete certificate chain and is unreachable without supplying the missing GoDaddy intermediate. It cannot carry a long quotation: the extraction service renders the page with a literal line-break tag every few words, and a direct fetch mis-decodes its ISO-8859-1 encoding and destroys every accent, which is exactly the failure the quote check exists to catch. Quote short fragments that fall between breaks, or quote elsewhere and corroborate here.

Re-check every

365 days

Publication rhythm

A static archive. Decisions are published on the current site, www.tsj.gob.ve, which is separate.

Re-check triggers

a constitutional amendment · a Sala Constitucional ruling on nationality or on the status of foreigners

Facts resting on this publisher · 7