Constitutionalism and Citizenship: The Trajectory of Redemocratization of Brazilian Society

Abstract

This article analyzes the trajectory of Brazilian society in search of democracy, without the intention of an in-depth chronological cut. Only referenced in the time period beginning with the Proclamation of the Republic, going through two dictatorial periods until the emergence of the “New Republic” and the convening of the National Constituent Assembly, with the promulgation of the Brazilian Constitution, constituting an arduous trajectory of redemocratization until the arrival of the “Very New Republic”. The end of the first republican period that came to power through the political-military movement of 1930, caused a political upheaval and the protagonists of that period had difficulty in maintaining the cohesion of the movement, in view of the oligarchic dissidences. After, came the “Second Republic”, characterizing the “Vargas Age”, with the triumph of the revolution, then, the turbulent period of the military coup of 1964, until the political opening conciliatory of Tancredo Neves.