the Government of Chile

“ The acts and resolutions of the State organs, as well as their foundations and the procedures they use, are public. However, only a qualified quorum law may establish the reservation or secrecy of those or of them, when the publicity affects the due fulfillment of the functions of said bodies, the rights of the people, the security of the Nation or the national interest .
The President of the Republic, the Ministers of State, the deputies and senators, and the other authorities and officials that a constitutional organic law indicates, must declare their interests and patrimony in public form. ”

“ No type of work may be prohibited except if it is contrary to morals, public security or health or if the national interest demands it and a law so declares. No law or provision from a public authority may require affiliation to an organization or any entity as a prerequisite for carrying out a determined activity or work, nor may it demand that any such affiliation be discontinued as a condition for keeping such activity or work. ”

“ The Supreme Court, when it comes to providing a position that corresponds to a member from the Judiciary, will form the payroll exclusively with its members and the oldest minister of the Court of Appeals that appears in the list of merits should occupy a place in it. . The other four places will be filled in response to the merits of the candidates. In the case of providing a vacancy corresponding to lawyers outside the administration of justice, the payroll will be formed exclusively, prior to a public background, with lawyers that meet the requirements set forth in the fourth paragraph. ”

“ A deputy or senator shall cease to hold office if during his/her term he/she concludes or approves contracts with the State, acts as an attorney or agent in any class of lawsuit against the National Treasury, or as a proxy or agent in special proceedings of administrative character or in the public provision of jobs, departments, functions or commissions of a similar nature. The same penalty shall be incurred [by a deputy or senator] who agrees to be the director of a bank or of an anonymous society or occupies a position of similar importance in these activities. ”

“ An organic constitutional law shall determine its organization and operation, regulate the manner in which electoral processes and plebiscites are conducted with regard to all matters which are not provided for by this Constitution, and shall always guarantee the full equality between independents and members of political parties, in respect of the presentation of candidates as well as with regard to their participation in the processes described above. ”

“ An autonomous, hierarchical organ with the name of Public Ministry shall exclusively direct the investigation of the facts which constitute an offense, establish the facts that determine culpability of the participants and those that prove the innocence of the defendant and, as the case may be, shall bring the public criminal action in the form provided for by the law. It is equally competent to adopt the measures for the protection of victims and witnesses. In every case it may exercise jurisdictional functions. ”

“ Any of the chambers of the Tribunal is competent, without further appeal, to state the admissibility of the question, provided that it has verified the existence of proceedings pending before an ordinary or special tribunal, that the application of the challenged legal provision could be decisive for the resolution of the case, that the challenge is reasonably argued and that the other requirements established by the law are met. The same chamber is competent to decide on the suspension of the proceedings in which the action of inapplicability for unconstitutionality has originated. ”

“ Article 21.- Any individual who is arrested, detained or imprisoned in violation of the provisions of the Constitution or laws, may occur by himself, or by anyone in his name, to the magistracy indicated by law, in order to that this order be kept legal formalities and immediately adopt the measures deemed necessary to restore the rule of law and ensure due protection of the affected.
That magistracy may order that the individual be brought to his presence and his decree will be precisely obeyed by all those in charge of prisons or places of detention. ”

“ Political parties may not intervene in activities outside their own or have any privilege or monopoly of citizen participation; the list of its militants will be registered in the state electoral service, which will keep its reservation, which will be accessible to the militants of the respective party; your accounting must be public; the sources of its financing may not come from money, assets, donations, contributions or credits of foreign origin; its statutes must contemplate the norms that ensure an effective internal democracy. ”

“ Freedom of education has no other limitations than those imposed by morals, good customs, public order and national security.
Officially recognized education may not be oriented towards propagating any political partisan tendency.
Parents have the right to choose the educational establishment for their children.
An organic constitutional law shall establish the minimum requirements that have to formulated for each of the levels of basic and intermediate education and shall provide the objective provisions, of general application, that permit the State to monitor its fulfillment. ”

“ The certainty that the legal provisions which by mandate of the Constitution regulate or complement the guarantees established therein or which limit them in the cases authorized by the Constitution may not affect the rights in their essence nor impose conditions, taxes or requirements which impede their free exercise. ”

“ By the declaration of state of siege, the President of the Republic may restrict the freedom of locomotion and arrest people in their own homes or in places determined by law and that are not prisons or are destined for the detention or imprisonment of prisoners common. ”

“ The State protects the free and equal access to the actions of promotion, protection and recovery of the health and rehabilitation of the individual.
It will also be responsible for the coordination and control of health-related actions.
It is the State's preferential duty to guarantee the execution of health actions, whether they are provided through public or private institutions, in the manner and conditions determined by law, which may establish mandatory contributions.
Each person will have the right to choose the health system they wish to benefit from, whether state or private ”

“ No one may, in any case, be deprived of their property, of the property on which it rests or of any of the essential attributes or powers of the domain, except by virtue of general or special law authorizing expropriation due to public utility or interest. national, qualified by the legislator. The expropriated may claim the legality of the expropriatory act before the ordinary courts and shall always be entitled to compensation for the property damage actually caused, which shall be fixed by mutual agreement or in a sentence issued pursuant to law by said courts. ”

“ The Armed Forces dependent on the Ministry in charge of National Defense are composed only and exclusively of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. They exist for the defense of the country (patria) and are essential for the security of the Nation. ”

“ The members of the Tribunal shall remain nine (9) years in office and shall be partially replaced every three (3) years. They must have held for at least fifteen (15) years the title of lawyer, have distinguished themselves in their professional, academic or public activity; they may not be prevented by any impediment from discharging the office of a judge, shall be subject to the provisions in Articles 58, 59 and 81, and may not exercise the profession of trial lawyer, including in the judiciary, nor carry out any of the activities referred to in the second and third paragraph of Article 60. ”

“ In the case of numeral 7, once the declaration of inapplicability of a legal provision has been made in a prior judgment in accordance with numeral 6 of this article, there will be a public action to request from the Tribunal the declaration of unconstitutionality, without prejudice to the ability of the latter to issue that declaration on its own initiative. The respective constitutional organic law shall establish the conditions of admissibility for cases where public action is instituted, as well as regulate the proceedings to be followed if the Tribunal acts on its own initiative. ”