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Constitution of Brazil

The Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil) is the supreme law of Brazil. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of Brazil and the federal government of Brazil. It replaced the autocratic 1967 constitution capping 21 years of military dictatorship and establishing Brazil's 6th republic, also known as the New Republic (Nova República). Made in the light of the Brazilian transition to democracy, it resignified the role of the state in the citizens' lives, providing a vast system of human and individual rights protection, social welfare, and democratic tools.

Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil

Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil

Federative Republic of Brazil

22 September 1988 (1988-09-22)

5 October 1988 (1988-10-05)

Federal presidential constitutional republic

Three (executive, legislature, judiciary)

Bicameral: Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate

President of the Republic

Supreme Federal Court

Federation

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1987–88 Constituent Assembly

Constituent Assembly

1967 Constitution of Brazil

Overview[edit]

The 1988 Brazilian Constitution is the seventh enacted since the country's independence in 1822, and the sixth since the proclamation of the republic in 1889.[1][2] It was promulgated on 5 October 1988, after a two-year process in which it was written from scratch. It was revised in 2017. [3]

The Constitution allows the Brazilian government to "expropriate, for the purpose of , rural property that is not performing its social function." (Article 184)

agrarian reform

Brazilian Military Criminal Code

Galindo, George Rodrigo Bandeira (2023), "Brazil." in The Oxford Handbook of International Law and the Americas, Oxford University Press, :10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197661062.013.35

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(full text - English translation edited by the Chamber of Deputies - download free e-book at "Baixar grátis" button, or buy physical book) (in English)

Constitution of Brazil

(full text) (in English) extracted from the website of the Chamber of Deputies Archived 2019-06-28 at the Wayback Machine;

Constitution of Brazil

(full text) – ; pdf; 432 pages

Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil

(full text) (in Portuguese)

Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil

Archived 7 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine – official English translations of the Constitution, and dozens of other Brazilian laws

Legislação brasileira traduzida para o Inglês

 – official MPF translation

Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil