História do direito constitucional brasileiro: a Constituição do Império do Brasil de 1824 e o sistema econômico escravocrata

Abstract

This article has as its subject the history of 1824’s constitution of the Empire of Brazil aiming to analyze its relations with the prevailing Brazilian slavery system at the time. The problem with the research concentrates precisely in an apparent contradiction between the text of a liberal economic constitution and the functioning of an incompatible private economic system, initially, according to those statements. It’s assumed that the problem can´t be analyzed by the separation between theory and practice, but, instead, by an interpenetration of this instances through the law and the effective functioning of state institutions. The theoretical framework adopted in the text for analysis is the historical materialism, and the authors used as a basis for research are inscribed in this context. The deductive method chosen was analytical chapter, final considerations and bibliographic references.

Keywords

• Direitos Fundamentais
• Relações Privadas
• Constitucionalismo
• Liberdade
• Escravidão