Republic and Constitutition. Parliamentary Debates On Constitutional Revision In Portugal (1915-1921)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i24.902

Keywords:

Portuguese Republic, Constitution of 1911, Constitutional revision, Parliamentarism, Presidentialism

Abstract

This paper main goal is to discuss, from a political history and a constitutional history point of view, the reasons and the arguments which sustained the need of changing some contents of the 1911 Political Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. The debates originated September 1916, August 1919, September 1919, August 1920, April 1921 Constitutional Revision Laws and March 1918 (dictatorial) Government Decrees of Constitutional Reform. These last Decrees have been suspended, regarding the procedure of the Presidential election, by means of the Decembre 1918 Law. 

Enviado el (Submission Date): 17/11/2022

Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 5/01/2023

Author Biography

Ernesto Castro Leal, Universidade de Lisboa (Faculdade de Letras)

Professor Associado com Agregação, Departamento de História

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Published

2023-09-04

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 24 (2023): Historia Constitucional N. 24 (2023)

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Europe and United States of America

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