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Axtremus
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https://www.reuters.com/world/...titution-2022-09-04/

The current Chilean Constitution was adopted under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In 2019 the people of Chile embarked on a process to draft a new Constitution with elected representatives. Today (2022 Sep. 4) is when they vote to either accept or reject the new Constitution, one that reportedly has 388 articles.

Reuters’ explainer for what’s in the new Constitution: https://www.reuters.com/world/...titution-2022-07-29/


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Looks like the new Constitution has been rejected, 62% to 38%.


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Pretty amazing turnout, at least by US standards.

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Nearly 13 million of 15 million Chileans and residents who were eligible to vote cast ballots across more than 3,000 voting centers.


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Is the US headed for a revised Constitution?

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Former Sen. Russ Feingold spoke with "ABC News Prime" about his new book “The Constitution in Jeopardy,” co-written with attorney Peter Prindiville, about what they see as a coordinated effort to amend the Constitution and making sweeping changes to our democracy using a specific provision in Article 5


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...titution/ar-AA11khhQ


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I haven't read up on the Chilean constitutional process, but here's an amateur thought anyway ...

In the modern age, the likelihood of getting a simple and streamlined constitutional statement through any political negotiation process is just about zero. But getting an unwieldy and falsely overprecise tome through an election is also a low probability event in a non-authoritarian election process. Hence the strong bias toward the political status quo absent a political vacuum in a country.
 
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From what I’ve read online, the new constitution proposed sweeping changes in several areas. I’m as lefty as the next guy but I wouldn’t have voted for it either.

Too many changes at once, IMHO.


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