The embrace of dictatorship: Pinochet's constitution in Chile of Pinochet in Chile

Abstract

A Constitution, as a law of laws, is responsible for settling the institutional apparatus of a given legal system governed by the sovereignty of a State and of a people that carries with it the identity of an entire political community. Throughout time, fundamental codes have arisen from critical junctures essential to the change of national political systems.
political systems. In the case of Latin America, constitutions have been shaped under processes of democratic transition or periods of progress in terms of the recognition of the civil and political rights of the population.

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