“O honrado comércio desta praça...” Os debates sobre propriedade privada através do Jornal do Comércio e Correio da Manhã: limites e possibilidades de atuação do Estado na Grande Reforma Urbana (1903-1906)

Abstract

The urban reform implemented under the government of Mayor Pereira Passos met resistance in several sectors of the society of Rio de Janeiro. Foreign trade in the central area of the city affected by the Great Urban Reform underwent a period of transition and reorganization in the occupation of space between the years 1903 and 1906. The research to analyze how newspapers Jornal do Comércio and Correio da Manhã erected speeches based at the central point of the traders' opposition to expropriations: the property right based on the concept of modern political liberalism. We seek to analyze the liberalism mitigated by the updating of the State of Tradition, as well as the limits of government action in the re- dimensioning of urban space before private rights, especially private property. We will analyze how the debates about the right of property against the public utility in the enterprises in the society, in Justice and in official organs of the government. Among the complex relationships and disputes that are merchants engaged with municipal and federal public power, we will analyze other strategies to guarantee their establishments in front of the State.