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| Author(s): |
Roberto Nicolas Puzzo Ferreira Saba
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2010-08-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Miriam Dolhnikoff;
Monica Duarte Dantas;
Lucia Maria Bastos Pereira das Neves
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| Advisor: | Miriam Dolhnikoff |
| Abstract | |
Together with the freedom of thought and speech, the Constitution of 1824 provided Brazilian society with the right to be heard by authorities: Article 179, Paragraph 30 states that all citizens will be able to present to the Legislative or the Executive Power written grievances, complaints, or petitions. This dissertation attempts to explore how this constitutional right was used by Brazilian citizens during the time that monarchical order was being consolidated. During the reign of D. Pedro 2nd, many groups, including businessmen, manufacturers, doctors, lawyers, local authorities, priests, landowners, voters, electors, and others, established a direct relation with the political elite responsible for molding the new institutions. The analysis of the petitions sent to the Chamber of Deputies by the 1840s and the parliamentary debate ensued provide an indication that important political changes of that period (i.e., electoral reform, approval of the Commercial Code, judicial reform) were influenced by the participation of certain sections of Brazilian society that were able to organize themselves and successfully use their right of petition. Mediated by such petitionary activity, governors and governed took part in a dialogue that led to the resolution of some of the most important issues concerning Brazilian reality. That dialogue made the ideal of representative government tangible to many groups that formed the prevailing national political landscape. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/01286-7 - The Voices of the Nation: civil society and parliament in Imperial Brazil |
| Grantee: | Roberto Nicolas Puzzo Ferreira Saba |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |