Escola pública e liberalismo no Brasil imperial: Construção do estado e abandono da nação

Abstract

This article examines the right to education of our first constitutional legislator in 1824 that gives Brazilian Empire Constitution a liberal feature. Thus we analyze our first Constitution paying attention to those articles and paragraphs professing Citizenship Rights identifying social rights, especially the right to education. In this analysis we seek to understand how liberalism is presented in Brazil trying to include the country into a world capitalist system denying what was the most essential system restricting competition to create two levels of citizenship, preserving the elites and all their rights and denying others to more essential rights for the consolidation of the people and the nation. Thus, the legislator gave priority to the formation and consolidation of the state through its institutions leting aside the nation that would be denying one of its main rights: The Education.