http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20201103-115721-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/pitfalls-of-a-precious-opportunity/ Pitfalls of a Precious Opportunity Moya, Francisca Goldoni, Marco eng 2020-11-03 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 constitution making constitutional convention Social Justice Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 After forty years, Chile recently expressed the will to no longer being governed by the Constitution bequeathed by Pinochet. And it did so in a resounding manner through a plebiscite. The path that will lead to the election of the Constitutional Convention and then the drafting of the new Constitution seems to be exciting: we are observing how a genuine constituent moment is unfolding. However, the importance of the social question coupled with the new constitution carries the risk of over-constitutionalisation and the lack of leadership in the constitutional process could diminish its perception of legitimacy.