4. To decide as to the constitutionality of the laws, decrees, and regulations when a question of that effect is raised by any party.

Section Third
GENERAL RULES REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATION
OF JUSTICE

Art. 84. Justice shall be administered gratuitously throughout the entire territory of the Republic.[{229}]

Art. 85. The courts shall take cognizance of all cases, whether civil, criminal, or between the Government and private parties.

Art. 86. No judicial commissions or extraordinary tribunals, no matter under what name, shall ever be created.

Art. 87. No functionary of the judicial order shall be suspended or removed from his office except for crime or any other grave cause, fully proven, and always after being heard. Nor shall he be transferred without his consent to any other place, unless it is for the manifest benefit of the public service.

Art. 88. All judicial functionaries shall be personally responsible, in the manner and form determined by law, for the violations of law which they may commit.

Art. 89. The salaries of judicial functionaries shall not be changed except at the end of periods of more than five years, and by means of a law. The law, however, shall not give different salaries to positions whose rank, category, and functions are equal.

Art. 90. The courts for the forces of land and sea shall be governed by a special organic law.

Title XI
THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
Section First
GENERAL PROVISIONS