THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN BRAZILIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REGIME OF 1824: A PROTOTYPE OF ACCOUNTABILITY MODELS OF BRAZILIAN CONSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyse the forms of political, administrative and functional liability of Estate agents in the Brazilian constitutional system of the Empire period (from 1824 to 1889). The subject approach intends to present an overview of the various forms of political and functional liability in the period of the Brazilian Empire. Provisional results show that the imperial liability system served as model to the liability system of the Republican period, including the current partially effective liability system in the Constitution of 1988. There is a theoretical research in the context of liability in the rule of law with literature review on the topic. Subsequently, the writing process of this text is inductive, by extracting from documentary sources comprehensive descriptions of the liability forms adopted in the concrete constitutional regime of 1824. The research sources were literature review of political and constitutional theories, with periodical as auxiliary sources; when it was questioned on the liability forms in the 1824 regime, the main sources are laws and secondarily Periodicals.