O pensamento político de Tavares Bastos e sua atualidade no ordenamento Jurídico Brasileiro

Abstract

This article will expose Tavares Bastos’ liberal project, as presented in his great study on decentralization in Brazil: The Province, from 1870, with special focus on his discussion about federation and decentralization. Then, it will present and demonstrate the freshness and eventual applicability of some of these proposals in nowaday’s Brazil, also focusing issues such as functionalism, bureaucracy and democracy. To do so, it will be structured as follows: 1. Introduction 2. presentation of the author, 3. presentation of the studied book and its main points, 4. comparison of some key proposals with nowaday’s Brazil, from the current legislation (in particular, 1988’s Federal Constitution) 5. Final remarks.