This paper explores the political awakening of the Chilean people that began in October 2019. It puts forward an alternative reading of the people’s claim for a new constitution. The first section briefly describes the October outcry and provides some context with regards to the nature of the social movement at its root. The two following sections examine two periods in Chilean recent history, the Pinochet regime and the period that has come after its overturn, focusing on two elements: the neoliberal model set up by the dictatorship and the Constitution of 1980, which was designed to block the people’s political agency for the purpose of protecting the model. The final section works with these two elements in order to provide an alternative scheme by which to examine Chile’s awakening, the central question being: what does the claim for a new constitution mean? And critical for these purposes: what constitution is being overturned? Pinochet’s political project distorted constitutional ideas in such a way that only by clarifying the conceptual horizon is it possible to visualize how the concept of constitution and its relationship with the idea of a constituent power of the people can be of help to understand Chile’s constitutional awakening.

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什么宪法？智利的宪法觉醒

本文探讨了始于 2019 年 10 月的智利人民的政治觉醒。它提出了对人民要求新宪法的另一种解读。第一部分简要描述了 10 月的抗议，并提供了一些关于社会运动本质的背景。以下两节考察了智利近代历史上的两个时期，即皮诺切特政权及其推翻后的时期，重点关注两个要素：独裁统治建立的新自由主义模式和旨在阻止和平的 1980 年宪法。以保护模特为目的的人民政治机构。最后一部分与这两个要素一起工作，以提供一种替代方案来检查智利的觉醒，核心问题是：新宪法的要求是什么意思？对于这些目的至关重要：什么宪法正在被推翻？皮诺切特的政治计划以这样一种方式扭曲了宪法思想，以至于只有澄清概念视野，才有可能形象化宪法的概念及其与人民制宪权思想的关系如何有助于理解智利的宪法觉醒。