O poder judiciário e a autonomia do direito: os entraves ao controle do poder político numa sociedade estamental

Abstract

The bourgeois revolutions that occurred in the European context of the eighteenth century were essential for the development of various legal mechanisms to contain the monarchical despotism. Similarly, the independence of the thirteen American colonies exerted an extremely important influence on modern constitutionalism, to promote the strengthening of the doctrine of constitutional supremacy and present legal instruments that avoid the arbitrariness of both the Executive Branch, as the Legislature. However, in Brazil, these issues have been incorporated in a manner inconsistent by bureaucratic stratum, which, during the term of authoritarian regimes, imported European and American experiences of the main institutions developed by the revolutionary movements. Here, the estamental domain overlapped law and started using all these constitutional mechanisms for its own sake. That way, you can see that the permanence of a estamental domination caused damages to the strengthening of a in the Brazilian context, preventing the law reached the necessary autonomy to limit the exercise of political power.