Chile Rejects New Constitution in Historic National Referendum
Chileans decisively turned down a proposed conservative constitution, continuing the struggle to replace the Pinochet-era text amidst political discontent and division.
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Chileans decisively turned down a proposed conservative constitution, continuing the struggle to replace the Pinochet-era text amidst political discontent and division.
Chilean voters reject conservative constitution that would have deepened free-market principles, reduced state intervention, and limited women's rights.
Chile's recent rejection of a conservative constitution overlooks the potential benefits and historical success of conservative principles in fostering national stability and prosperity.
Central to Russel Kirk's work is the belief that we must help preserve religious truth, individual virtue, and traditions that help us learn to act as we ought to act. Politics cannot give usthese permanent things. Politics is the art of the possible. Itshould aim at balancing the needs of freedom and order byprotecting society's fundamental institutions.
House members opened the 112th Congress on Thursday by reading aloud the Constitution, presumably as a first step toward fulfilling the tea party's goal of "restoring" our nation's founding document. However, an alternative text was reportedly circulated in secret among incoming GOP lawmakers, representing the Constitution they hoped to read aloud when the 113th Congress…