CUP is publishing a new book on
the history of constitutionalism in Chile.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Like many countries around the
world, Chile is undergoing a political moment when the nature of democracy and
its political and legal institutions are being challenged. Senior Chilean legal
scholar and constitutional historian Pablo Ruiz-Tagle provides an historical
analysis of constitutional change and democratic crisis in the present context
focused on Chilean constitutionalism. He offers a comparative analysis of the
organization and function of government, the structure of rights and the main
political agents that participated in each stage of Chilean constitutional
history. Chile is a powerful case study of a Latin American country that has
gone through several threats to its democracy, but that has once again followed
a moderate path to rebuild its constitutional republican tradition. Not only
the first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English
language from the nineteenth-century to the present day, this book is also a
powerful defence of democratic values.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pablo Ruiz-Tagle, Universidad
de Chile
Pablo Ruiz-Tagle is Dean and
Professor of Constitutional Law and Introduction to Law at the Universidad de
Chile. Trained at Yale Law School, he has lectured in Chile and abroad and
published several books. He has given advice to the Chilean Congress and other
institutions on constitutional matters.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Preface to the English
translation
Acknowledgements
1. Republican constitutionalism
as an ideal type and tradition and its alternatives
2. First republic. The
independent republic (1810–1830)
3. Second republic. The
authoritarian republic (1830–1870)
4. Third republic. The liberal
republic (1870–1924)
5. Fourth republic. The
democratic republic (1932–1973)
6. The dictatorial imposition of
authoritarian constitutionalism (1973–1990)
7. Fifth republic. The
neo-liberal republic (1990 to date)
8. The most recent Chilean
constitutional moment and its content
9. Afterword
10. Annex: agreement for social peace
and a new constitution (2019)
11. Bibliography
12. Index.
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