The Brazilian Federal State according to the 1988 Constitution

Abstract

The subject in discussion tries to make more precise some little studied aspects of the new Brazilian constitution. This justifies this paper, that has no other objective but show some guidelines and propose a systematic interpretation of the constitutional rules that refer to this important subject. This study comes in three parts. The first one concerns the autonomy of the member state and its power of self-organization; the second one is about the limitations imposed to the self-organization; the last is about the attribution of competence and specially of the regime of concurrent competence, always in the Federal Constitution in force.