The Constitution of the new Portuguese State (1933)

Authors

  • Paulo Ferreira da Cunha Universidade de Oporto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i7.47

Keywords:

Constitution, Portuguese Constitution 1933, Fascism, Corporative state, Authoritarianism, Semantic Constitution, Constitutional reality, Real Constitution, Salazar, “Estado Novo”.

Abstract

After the military putsch of 1926, that put an end to the Portuguese democratic and parliamentary republic, the new regime waited until 1933 to submit a constitutional project to referendum. This was wisely prepared by a frenetic legislative and institutional activity during the previous year, and the result would be naturally a victory of the “yes”, although the precise results still remain controversial. The abstentions counted as favourable votes…

The Constitution of 1933, in its final text, approved by the referendum, is less anti-liberal, anti-parliamentary, and anti-democratic than the regime’s ideological premises would impose. But the ulterior constitutional practice of Salazar’s “Estado Novo” would “correct” in practice those “semantic” aspects…

Submission date: 01/02/2006
Acceptance date: 18/04/2006

Author Biography

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha, Universidade de Oporto

Catedrático de Derecho y Director del Instituto Jurídico Interdisciplinar de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Oporto, y Profesor Invitado en la Escuela Superior de Derecho Constitucional de São Paulo. Preside la Sección de Derecho de la Academia Skepsis, y es correspondiente de la Academia Europea de Teoria del Derecho (Bruxelas). Doctor en Derecho Público por la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Coimbra y en Historia y Filosofia del Derecho por la Universidad de Paris II, y Agregado en Ciencias Jurídicas Públicas. Entre sus más de cincuenta libros destacan: Para uma História Constitucional do Direito Português, Coimbra, 1995 (agotado); Constituição, Direito e Utopia, Coimbra, 1996; Teoria da Constituição, 2 vols., Lisboa / São Paulo, 2000-2002; y, Novo Direito Constitucional Europeu, Coimbra, 2005.

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Issue

No. 7 (2006): Historia Constitucional N. 7 (2006)

Section

Spain, Portugal and Iberoamerica

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