Transforming Chile from the Ground Up: Two Constitutional Convention representatives reflect on the process of drafting the world's most progressive constitution.

WOMEN'S rights; CONSTITUTIONAL conventions; CULTURAL pluralism; CONSTITUTIONS; POLITICAL participation; INDIGENOUS peoples of South America

This changes profoundly in the draft constitution, which shifts from the current "subsidiary state" to a "social and democratic state governed by the rule of law." (FERNANDO RAMIREZ / GOBIERNO DE CHILE / CC BY 3.0 CL) B ACV: b In terms of basic rights, the proposed constitution offers a leap in dignity for the entire population, especially for historically excluded groups. Over the last three years, Chileans rose up in an unprecedented rejection of 30 years of neoliberalism, voted overwhelmingly to scrap the dictatorship-era constitution, and elected a historic constituent assembly tasked with drafting a new charter. [Extracted from the article]

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