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Implementation of the model state legislation by the national elites that began in the late nineteenth century and lasted until the nineties when it was promulgated the new constitution was characterized by hidden social conflicts and armed conflict were to expand to more complex in the last decades of the twentieth century in the Colombian context, this strategy of concealment and interpret the confrontations as a public order problem was resolved by the law and state institutions without major consequences for the state and society by the political elites economic and affect the training taught in the faculties of law and social sciences, the first priority was teaching him the rule of law and in the latter theories from the central contexts away from the complex reality around them, only until the beginning of the nineties began appearing timid concern for social conflict, armed conflict and the relationship with legal pluralism from the specialties of the science of law and legal sociology and anthropology who started in the academic context in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This short article focuses on the input of emergent values and norms in a dominant legal system. The pure request and need of emergent legal values for recognition and formal acceptance underline the position of the dominant culture. Moreover, it allows the dominant culture to change and adapt emergent values and norms in order to enforce its position. Gender legal issues at large, and same-sex couples' request for the right to marry in particular are examples of this phenomenon. Legal polycentricity on the other hand stresses the equalisation of different values. However, the question raises to what degree this theoretical legal model effectively ameliorates the lives of individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]