The growth of state intervention in the First Republic and Administrative Law literature

some preliminary notes on the History of Brazilian Administrative Law

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23927/issn.2526-1347.RIHGB.2021(485):165-202

Keywords:

state intervention, compulsory vaccination, segregating urban planning, Viveiros de Castro, Aarão Reis, Brazilian administrative law

Abstract

During the First Republic (1889-1930) and in the following years, some Brazilian legal thinkers saw state intervention as a serious risk to constitutional liberties. Initially affecting fields such as public health and urban planning, new (or just harsher) state measures were then expanding administrative action, challenging liberal orthodoxy and causing jurists to angrily react by means of lawsuits, public speeches and critical public law books. Nevertheless, new facts such as the “Vaccine Revolt”, the positive results of the so-called “sanitary dictatorship” and, particularly, the development of new attitudes towards the “Social Question” after 1917/1918 apparently led the Brazilian Administrative Law literature to become more open to state intervention as a whole. 

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Author Biography

  • Airton Cerqueira-Leite Seelaender, UNB

    Professor de História do Direito e Direito Público da UNB. Bolsista do CNPQ.

Published

2024-03-01

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Articles and Essays

How to Cite

SEELAENDER, Airton Cerqueira-Leite. The growth of state intervention in the First Republic and Administrative Law literature: some preliminary notes on the History of Brazilian Administrative Law. Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro, v. 182, n. 485, p. 165–202, 2024. DOI: 10.23927/issn.2526-1347.RIHGB.2021(485):165-202. Disponível em: https://rihgb.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/139. Acesso em: 30 apr. 2026.

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