A crença na institucionalização de um estado ideal : uma análise do processo de elaboração do texto constitucional de 1988

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the process of the 1988's Magna Carta text constrution, underlining the constitutional debate between the two main ideologies in the country, developmentalist and liberal, particularly on issues of Constitution economic order. To this end, its fundament was the theory of the Austrian School of Economics, based on Friedrich August von Hayek. The study criticizes the thought of the legislators, specifically about the concepts of legal positivism, economic planning and social engineering, steeped in the constitutional text. In the first chapter there is a brief introduction of the origins and philosophical foundations of modern liberal constitutions until the twentieth century, when the concept of minimal and liberal Constitution will suffer a transformation. In the second chapter, there is a recapitulation of the historical context of the democratization process in Brazil, which resulted in the appeal of drawing up a new constitution. In the third chapter, ways of constitutional and referrals will be analyzed, from the choose of its process of text drafting to the way the work was conducted. Finally, the force idea of the Constitution writers was examined.