During this period occurred the collapse, not only of the Fourth Republic but also of the republican institutionality that was forged in Chile from its independence. The catalyst of this collapse is the decision to transfer the constituent power from the people to the Military Junta, headed by Pinochet. This transfer has no previous precedent in the republican history of Chile, and therefore breaks with our political and constitutional tradition, begun at Independence. During the Chilean dictatorship, starting in 1973, a new constitutional ideal of anti-republican orientation is installed by force. This process was consolidated in 1980 when Pinochet "granted" a Constitution that, together with assigning the military a political function not subordinated to the civil power, sets out to institutionalize a conception neo-liberal in respect of the laws and authoritarian in respect of government, inspired in Freidrich von Hayek and Carl Schmitt and, in the Estatuto de Garantías Constitutionales, adopted as law in 1970.