http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210304-153902-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/assembling-social-rights/ Assembling Social Rights - What Chile’s constitutional assembly can learn from Weimar and Bonn Vargas Weil, Ernesto eng 2021-03-04 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Chile Citizen Constitution Constitutional Reform Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In April 2021, Chile will hold elections for its first constitutional assembly. It will draft a new constitution to replace the current one, born in 1980 during Chile’s military dictatorship. One topic that will be at the center of the assembly’s debate is the status that ‘social rights’ shall have in the new constitution. The most debated issue in this regard is whether such rights should be directly enforceable. Despite the distance in time, space and culture, the drafting of Chile’s new constitution can learn important lessons from Germany’s constitutions of 1919 and 1949 in this field.