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The National Congress is the legislative branch
Legislature

Legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to create and change laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law....
 of the government of the Republic of Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
.

The National Congress of Chile was founded on July 4, 1811. It is a bicameral
Bicameralism

In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. Thus, a bicameral parliament or bicameral legislature is a legislature which consists of two chambers or houses....
 legislature comprised by the Chamber of Deputies
Chamber of Deputies of Chile

The Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile is the lower house of Chile's Bicameralism National Congress of Chile. Its organisation and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of Chile's current Constitution of Chile....
 (lower house), of 120 members and by the Senate
Senate of Chile

The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile's Bicameralism National Congress of Chile, as established in the current Constitution of Chile....
 (upper house), formed by 38 parliamentarians.

The organisation of Congress and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of the current constitution
Constitution of Chile

In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military dictatorship , to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta....
 and by the Constitutional Organic Law No.






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The National Congress is the legislative branch
Legislature

Legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to create and change laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law....
 of the government of the Republic of Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
.

The National Congress of Chile was founded on July 4, 1811. It is a bicameral
Bicameralism

In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. Thus, a bicameral parliament or bicameral legislature is a legislature which consists of two chambers or houses....
 legislature comprised by the Chamber of Deputies
Chamber of Deputies of Chile

The Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile is the lower house of Chile's Bicameralism National Congress of Chile. Its organisation and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of Chile's current Constitution of Chile....
 (lower house), of 120 members and by the Senate
Senate of Chile

The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile's Bicameralism National Congress of Chile, as established in the current Constitution of Chile....
 (upper house), formed by 38 parliamentarians.

The organisation of Congress and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of the current constitution
Constitution of Chile

In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military dictatorship , to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta....
 and by the Constitutional Organic Law No. 18,918. Congress meets in the Chile Congress building, which was built during the last years of the Pinochet regime and stands in the port city of Valparaíso
Valparaíso

Valpara?so is a major city in Chile and one of that country's most important seaports and an increasingly vital cultural center in the hemisphere's Pacific Southwest....
, some 140 km west of the capital, Santiago. This new building replaced the old National Congress
Ex Congreso Nacional

The Former National Congress Building is the former home of the Chilean Congress of Chile. Congress met in this building in central Santiago, Chile until Salvador Allende's socialist government was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet's military Chilean coup of 1973 on September 11, 1973....
, located in downtown Santiago.