The New Republic and the discussions on public and national security in the Brazilian Constituent Assembly of 1987-1988

Authors

  • Leonardo Evaristo Teixeira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Keywords:

Public Security, National Security, Constituent Assembly of 1987-1988, Subcommittee on Defense of the State, Society and its Security, Electoral Organization, Party and Guarantee of Institutions Commission

Abstract

The debates on public and national security in the Brazilian Constituent Assembly of 1987-1988 show the permanence of the authoritarian period of the military-business dictatorship, but also show advances in limiting the state's repressive power and its control mechanisms. In order to understand how the discussion of security models in the Constituent Assembly was developed, this article has sought to analyze these discussions within the Subcommittee on Defense of the State, Society and its Security, and the Electoral Organization, Party and Guarantee of Institutions Commission, beeing used the contributions of the ethnograthy of archives.

Enviado el (Submission Date): 24/05/2023

Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 19/08/2023

Author Biography

Leonardo Evaristo Teixeira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Doutorando pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Mestre em Direitos Humanos pela Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México. Bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Goiás, campos Jataí. Integra o GT CLACSO Pensamiento jurídico crítico y conflictos sociopolíticos, e o GT Criminologia Crítica e Movimentos Sociais do Instituto de Pesquisa, Direitos e Movimentos Sociais (IPDMS).

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Published

2024-09-03

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 25 (2024): Historia Constitucional N. 25 (2024)

Section

Iberoamerica

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