Composizione, indipendenza, legittimazione del Tribunal Constitucional portoghese: «mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades»?

The article focuses on the Portuguese Constitutional Court (TC) trying to demonstrate that the feared (and justified) original «riscos de partidarização» of the members (produced by the essentially parliamentarian system of designation) didn't prevent the Court capacity to fulfil its function of constitutional guarantor while the risk of politicization emerges unavoidably for the preventive judicial review. During the years, the idea on TC "original sin" is changed also thanks to the high level of the Court's jurisprudence.[...