The “ Programa do Movimento das Forças Armadas” : the original history of the Revolutionary Constitution of Portugal´s 25th April 74

Authors

  • Ricardo Luis Leite Pinto Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i17.430

Keywords:

“ Programa do MFA”, “revolution of 25th April “, Revolution”” Constitution” “ Pre-constituent decisions”

Abstract

morning of the 26 th April 74 , after the fall of the Salazar and Caetano dictatorships by the Armed Forces, is a very original juridical and political document at the light of the Portuguese and even Global Constitutional History . It represents the first Political Constitution of the Revolution ( 1974-1976), addressed to all but also largely disrespected. This Political Constitution of the Revolution will be discretely referenced in the 1976 Portuguese Constitution. If it were not for the “ Programa do MFA” the Portuguese constitutional democracy, present currently in Portugal , would be completely different and probably would have never existed.

Fecha de envío / Submission Date: 18/06/2015
Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance Date: 23/09/2015

Author Biography

Ricardo Luis Leite Pinto, Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa

Professor Assistente da Faculdade de Direito

Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa

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Published

2016-07-24

Issue

No. 17 (2016): Historia Constitucional N. 17 (2016)

Section

Siglo XX

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