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This chapter begins by sketching a historical development of constitutions in Chile. It shows that Chile’s historical profile is a model of authoritarian constitutional impositions. The defining contours of Chile’s constitutional relations of power will be addressed in the three sections that provide a general idea of rights regulations in Chile; a description of current institutional frameworks of political power; and look at what has become a third tenet of constitutionalism—constitutional review of legislation. It argues that the exploration of these contours shows that Chile’s current constitutional regulations emphasize just one of the faces of constitutionalism, which conceives rights and institutional frameworks as tools aimed exclusively to limit, instead of enabling, governmental power. This limiting character of Chile’s constitutional scheme has been achieved at the cost of limiting the people’s involvement with political power. The chapter concludes with a brief look at Chile’s constitutional scholarship. |
