Recursos extremos da administração estatal: as declarações de estado de sítio na Primeira República Brasileira

Abstract

The constitutional institute of state of siege was created in France during the revolutionary period in the end of XVIII Century. The juridical elaboration gained great international repercussion, integrating the most part of legislations in the world. Overplus used in France and in many other countries during the XIX Century, the Brazilian most recurrent experimentation happened in the time of its First Republic (1889-1930), when the institute was expressed for the first time in a Brazilian Constitution. This research aims to situate the Brazilians position in an international context of formulation and use of the state of siege, as well as to verify the importance of the institute to the construction of the republican system and the democracy in Brazil.