Iniciativa popular no processo legislativo brasileiro

Abstract

The representative democracy, of liberal origin, was revealed unable to render the fundamental rights, especially the socialrights of second and third generation, respectively. Only through the participative democracy that originates social "state participative" in teacher Paulo Bonavides word's, as fight instrument and resistance to the neoliberal process, is that the people of the third word can reach their redemption. With base in participative democracy constitucional theory of the mentionead constitucionalist, the presente dissertation aimed to study the institute of the popular iniciative in the process of elaboration of the laws, in the ambit of the federal, state and municipal legislative power, centralizing of the attention in its largest part, in the experience of the first law of popular iniciative, approved in the national congress - law number 9840, of september 28, 1999 - That brought substantial modification in the electoral legislation. To demonstrate his effective ness is was used as parameters some decisions of the electoral judiciary power. The research aims, as well, to contribute in the formation of brazilian society more participative. In synthesis, the present work is a true apologgy to the citizenship.