O debate sobre a separação de poderes no pensamento constitucional brasileiro

Abstract

The present work dissertates on the debates concerning the separation theory of the powers in the Brazilian constitutional thought and the influence that our constitutionalists had from the North American presidentialism and from the famous formulations of Montesquieu and Benjamin Constant, through an approach that seeks to demonstrate the Brazilian tradition of the executive and judiciary predominance to the detriment of the legislative. It also seeks to investigate the historical and political origins of the Brazilian pioneering in the introduction of the Moderator Power in the Imperial Constitution of 1824, and the relationship of the introduction of that mechanism with the modern debates concerning the titularity of the constitutional jurisdiction.