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The interpretation of the Constitution has lead to the development of a series of studies devoted to it. It has concerned about the notion, object, characteristics, specificity of constitutional interpretation and the role of constitutional judge. This paper treats this issue, and focuses in the role of constitutional interpretation directives, collecting as much of the doctrine developed, and then criticizing them. Traditional interpretation directives are described; this last ones are opposed to the new criteria that have been developed by certain sectors of the legal doctrine, which goes so far as to propose some directives already contained in other ones or that are not relevant in practice, as is intended to demonstrate in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]