STATE AND NATION: NOTES FOR A DEBATE.

Abstract

This communication deals with the process of formation of the State and the Nation in Brazil, seeking to shift the focus from the analysis of the consecrated visions that favored Sete de Setembro and the so-called Independence movement. It deals with the formation of the State and of the Nation, emphasizing the political changes that reached the whole space of the Portuguese Empire from the constitutionalist movement begun in Oporto on August 24, 1820. Although it does not minimize the meaning of Independence, it seeks to situate it in a set of struggles that, in both Portugal and Brazil, aimed at the liquidation of the Old Regime and, consequently, the liquidation of monarchical absolutism. Therefore, it draws attention to the rich political experience established with the Government Board, especially with the Board chaired by Gervásio Pires Ferreira, in Pernambuco.

Keywords

• State
• Nation
• Constitutionalism
• Governing Body