Carolina Goic, Chilean senator and former presidential candidate: “Chile’s Constitutional Convention is responsible for the weighty task of drafting a new document that addresses widespread citizen discontent that led to months-long street protests. It is hoped that a new constitution will allow a new political era to begin. The challenge is to build ‘everyone’s house,’ or in other words, a constitutional framework that builds a new social contract—one that abandons the divisions of the Pinochet dictatorship. The text of the constitution will be put to Chileans in a plebiscite to be held on Sept. 4. Several recent surveys and opinion polls show that more people would now reject the constitution rather than approve it. Among the proposals that generate the most concerns are those centered around pension funds, changes to the justice system, questions around the definition of a plurinational state and the implications of having new autonomous territories. The proposed political system under discussion would also…”