The Brazilian constitutionalism: an historic introduction (1824-1988)

Authors

  • Paulo Ferreira da Cunha Universidade do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i8.40

Keywords:

Brazil, Constitutional History, Constitution, Brazilian Constitution 1988, Estado Novo (New State), Parliamentarism, Presidencialism.

Abstract

It is not usual to write a constitutional history from the view point of a foreigner. This is a essai of a glimpse of Brazilian constitutional history from the perspective of a Portuguese, descending from Bazilians, descending from Portuguese. In spite of those circunstances, of course the aim was always the possible objectivity in History and in Constitutional Law History.

Submission date: 16/03/2007
Acceptance date: 07/05/2007

Author Biography

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha, Universidade do Porto

Catedrático de Derecho Constitucional, Metodología y Filosofía del Derecho. Director del Instituto Jurídico Interdisciplinar de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Oporto, Portugal. Doctor en Derecho por la Universidad de Coimbra y de París II. “Agregado” en Derecho, Ciencias Jurídicas Públicas. Autor de más de 60 libros y 300 artículos especializados.