Judicial invalidation of constitutional amendments has garnered the attention of scholars in the last few years. Questions like whether and how a court should quash an amendment are at the forefront of contemporary ...

This Thesis investigates the constitutionalization of public policies and what has been its amendment pattern in post-1988 Brazil. We offer a criteria for selecting relevant proposed amendments to the Constitution in the ...

The idea of supremacy of the Constitution brings inculcated the necessity of performing a law control, reason why two major systems have been created, the one performed by diffuse/incidental pathway, originating in the ...

Abstract: This paper will discuss the relationship between the legislative and judicial branches in the context of a Democratic State of Law. The Federal Constitution has an essential role in the consolidation and effectiveness ...

The Brazilian tax system is one of the most complex in the world for its structure is quite extensive and complicated, and for constantly changing. Tax reform is needed, which would reduce bureaucracy and stimulate economic ...

Some constitutional changes are constitutional amendments in name alone. These unusual constitutional changes dismantle the basic structure of the constitution while at the same time building a new foundation rooted in ...

Since the Brazilian Constitution of 1824 the conduct of foreign policy has been of considerable concentration in the Executive Branch, having the Legislative Branch a post factum role in its decision making process. This ...

The text presents an analysis on the discourse on the creation of Constitutional Amendment n. 95/2016 in a Foucauldian perspective. The principles of the New Fiscal Regime (NRF) determine a reduction in investments in the ...