Resumen

SILVA, Tito Lívio Cabral Renovato. The Constitutional Issues of the Empire: the Legal and Political Context Reflected in the Stories “Fulano” and “Um homem célebre,” Machado de Assis. Rev. Fac. Der. [online]. 2015, n.38, pp.92-118.  Epub 01-Dic-2019. ISSN 0797-8316.

This article will examine the constitutional issues that occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century, such as the “religious issue”, “military issue” and “abolition of slavery”, which led to the end of the monarchy in Brazil. We will treat the historical panorama of the time, the current legal and constitutional crises of the Empire, where we analyze the 1824 Constitution and its articles that discuss the division of powers and functions concerning the moderating power. Analyze all these issues by Machado de Assis de Assis vision reflected in the characters of the stories “Fulano” and “Um homem célebre”, under an interdisciplinary method, targeting the relations between Law and Literature.

Palabras clave : Constitutional Issues of the Empire; Machado de Assis; Law and Literature.

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