Uma investigação sobre a forma de governo e o modo de governar da República

Abstract

This dissertation tries, using the thought of Machiavelli, Montesquieu and Madison, to study the republican government based on two distinct paradigms, namely the form of government and the mode of governing. The first relates to its institutional character of the State and political activity and becomes intelligible by a theoretical understanding of politics, that is what gives it shape. The second refers to modes of action of the government regardless of its institutional format and can be understood by sociological aspects, as it relates to society. Machiavelli and, under a point of view, Montesquieu can be considered the main representatives of that tradition identifies as the definition of form of government of the republic. Montesquieu, from another perspective, and Madison are the most dedicated to how to govern. Furthermore, this study seeks to address the freedom as a category of identity politics and thereby forming a cohesive whole of the republican tradition.