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“Memorial” às cortes de Lisboa de Manoel Luís da Veiga (1821) : constitucionalismo e formas de governo no Brasil.

2016; Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa; Volume: 51; Issue: 218 Linguagem: Inglês

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Cláudia Maria das Graças Chaves, Andréa Slemian,

Sociology and Education in Brazil

Based on the Memorial drafted and forwarded to the “Cortes” of Lisbon in 1821 by Manoel Luis da Veiga – publicist and owner of a rope factory in Pernambuco – we discuss con-stitutional arrangements and forms of Government in Brazil on the eve of its Independence. Constitutionalism was at the center of political discussions at that time, and within the plu¬ral and changing forms of Portuguese Empire governments it opened a wide field of experimentation. We also discuss multiple spaces in which this debate has turned into an intense game of political forces. Finally, we provide a transcription of Veiga’s Memorial, something not done until now.