Chilean Council of State

The Chilean Council of State was a body set up by the junta of General Augusto Pinochet to produce a constitution in order to legitimise military rule. The constitution which it produced was approved in a 1980 plebiscite.

The President of the Council of State was former President Jorge Alessandri.

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