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A primeira das virtudes: justiça e reformismo ilustrado na América portuguesa face à española

2014; Complutense University of Madrid; Volume: 40; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5209/rev_rcha.2014.v40.46343

ISSN

1988-270X

Autores

Andréa Slemian,

Tópico(s)

American Constitutional Law and Politics

Resumo

This objective of this article is to analyze proposals for judicial reform in America within the context of Iberian Enlightened Reformism and, particularly, measures designed to ensure the improved functioning of the courts and the impartiality of the trials. Focusing on the Portuguese case, the study is based on the understanding that the Ibero-American world had a common background, reflected in a shared legal and political tradition of a jurisdictional, corporative and Catholic nature, that was to be transmitted to America and imposed its limits on the execution of the then-in-vogue Iberian reform projects for a more effective and “rational” administration of Justice.

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