The Debate about the Social State
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https://doi.org/10.35588/pp.v15i2.6111Keywords:
Social State of Rule of Law, Social Rights, Constituent Debate, Constitutional ConventionAbstract
This text shows some of elements that are part of constitutional debate about the Social State in Chile. It succinctly reviews the evolution from idea of Democratic Rule of Law to the Democratic and Social State governed by the rule of law, and it describes the former of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the insertion of Social State notion in the German Constitution of 1949. Subsequently, it records the principal current treaties in matters of economical, social, cultural, and environmental rights, and it describes the elements in the respect inserted in proposal of Constitutional Convention of 2022, in Chile. Finally, it discusses about the cost of social rights insertion mentioned in that proposal, that several authors estimate in 9-14% GDP of 2021. The most recently data of OCDE point out social rights signified in Chile, during 2019, 11% of GDP, being the low rank between the member countries, while those of middle rank are situated in 19% of GDP and countries of high rank in 29-31% of GDP.
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