The paper deals with the role played by constitutional courts in democratic conflict solving. It proposes an informational theory of constitutional review in which constitutional courts obtain, process, and transmit information to parties in a way that reduces the uncertainty causing their conflict. Courts acquire relevant information to the extent that they are accessible, process it to the the extent that they are powerful, and credibly transmit it to the extent they are independent. Specifically, the argument is that independence is a necessary condition, and together with access and power the three conditions are jointly sufficient. I illustrate the theory in Colombia and Israel, two democracies where the armed forces are dealing with internal armed conflicts of different types, analyzing the constitutional jurisprudence on military autonomy and the regulation of the use of force. (The paper builds on a previously published book).