Open AccessREVOLUTION TROUGH CONSTITUTION: THE BRAZILIAN'S DIRECTIVE CONSTITUTION DEBATE
Author(s) -
Gilberto Bercovici
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
revista de investigações constitucionais
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.215
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2359-5639
DOI - 10.5380/rinc.v1i1.40249
Subject(s) - constitution , underdevelopment , directive , political science , politics , legislature , law , action (physics) , law and economics , sociology , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
The article discusses the phenomenon known as Directive Constitution and points out that several constitutions enacted in the 20th and 21st centuries in peripheral countries seek to bind the legislature to a constitutional project, thus establishing a political line of action that ensures the progressive construction – through the law – of a new social and economic reality, therefore overcoming underdevelopment