A construção da ideia de constituição no Rio de Janeiro e em Buenos Aires: abordagens político-sociais de 1808 a 1824

Abstract

This work intents to analise the political transformations occured in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, through a comparative and historical point of view. Starting in 1808, this transformations completaly changed the ancient iberical world, giving birth to a political emancipation. Therefore, such changes allowed the elaboration of constitutional projects that legitimazed these events. These situation had a breakthrough at 1824, as the Constituição Outorgada in Rio de Janeiro, seat of the brazilian empire, and with the constitutional project from Buenos Aires, wich was the baseline of the future constitution. During the elaboration of this study, we priorized as fonts, the constitutional projects from 1813 up to 1824, and also laws, decrees and newspapers of this period of time, specially the Gazeta de Buenos Aires . To the process occurred in Rio de Janeiro, we emphasized the debates held at 1823 assembly, its constitutional project, the constitution of 1824, and newspapers such as Revérbero Constitucional Fluminense and Sentinella da Liberdade na Guarita de Pernambuco . Considering the social and political issues, we intended to study the political path traced and the life of two important characters to the construction of the national policy: Mariano Moreno and Antonio Carlos R. Andrada Machado Silva e Araújo. They played a main role during the constitutional debate. At last, we seeked to compreended the questions that allowed the elaboration of a constitutional monarchy and a republic to these societies that sustained their status quo although they drifted apart from their projects.