Este artigo buscou averiguar em que medida democracia, separação de poderes e suas interseções com a noção de accountability foram uma preocupação durante a Assembleia Nacional Constituinte de 1987-88. Na primeira seção, ...

Article 2 of the Brazilian Federal Constitution states that the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judiciary branches are independent and harmonic among themselves. The independence and the harmony provided in Article 2 ...

O art. 62 da Constituição dá à Presidência da República o poder de editar medidas provisórias em caso de urgência e relevância. Este é reconhecido como o poder mais expressivo à disposição de presidentes da República. ...

This paperwork intends to analyze the Congressional role to suspend Regulatory Agencies’ acts. We expect to study the limits of this legislative competence facing the unique autonomy that is given to those Agencies. This ...

This paper’s goal is to verify if the Brazilian Supreme Court has a consolidated position on rules of mandatory compliance established by the Federal Constitution in State Constitutions, what are the most recurrent issues ...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the plausibility of the thesis of the constitutional mutation as a mechanism for effectuation of the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of 1988 from 6 (six) main ...

This paper proposes a reflection on a new role to be played by Regulatory Agencies in a democratic state, rethinking the tripartite theory developed by Montesquieu – the importance of their participation as Amicus Curiae ...

The goal of this study is to assess the soundness of the thesis that the Brazilian system of diffuse judicial review has undergone a 'constitutional mutation', specifically regarding the Federal Senate’s constitutional ...