Rupture and continuity in the Brazilian State, 1750-1850

Authors

  • Arno Wehling Universidad Gama Filho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i5.100

Keywords:

Constitutional rupture, constitutional continuity, Brazil, constitutionalism, independence

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to answer the following question: which were the ruptures and the continuities in the creation of the national Brazilian State, taking into account its first constitutional definition in 1824, and its development during the following decades?

Submission date: 18/10/2003
Acceptance date: 21/01/2004

Author Biography

Arno Wehling, Universidad Gama Filho

Professor Titular de Teoria e Metodologia da História (UFRJ, aposentado) y de História do Direito (UNI-RIO) . Professor titular de estas disciplinas en la Universidade Gama Filho. Entre sus últimas obras destacan: Formação do Brasil colonial ( com Maria José Wehling), Rio de Janeiro, Nova Fronteira, 1994; 2ª ed. 1999; Memória Social e Documento (com Maria José Wehling), Rio de Janeiro, UNI-RIO, 1997; História, Estado, Memória – Varnhagen e a construção da identidade nacional, rio de Janeiro, Nova Fronteira 1999; Documentos Históricos do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Nova Aguillar, 2000.

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No. 5 (2004): Historia Constitucional N. 5 (2004)

Section

Spain and Iberoamerica

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