the power of adjudicating on the constitution so there was an agreement to set up a new court to hear constitutional cases this new court or constitutional court could include people who were not judges or advocates provided that at least four of the eleven members of the constitutional court were existing sitting judges therefore at that point you had the supreme court of appeal which was the highest court of appeal and the constitutional court which was the highest court for constitutional matters and issues connected with decisions on constitutional matters one of the amendments in the constitution’s seventeenth amendment is to widen the power of the constitutional court to consider any matter that the interests of justice require them