Into the constitutional reform: the political struggle on the eve of the adoption of the law of 12th october 1832

Abstract

This article aims to assay a specific time of extensive and troubled constitutional reform process which culminated in the act Additional (1834) – the discuss in Parliament between the approval of Miranda Ribeiro´s project of law in the Chamber of Deputies in October 1831, and the law of 12th October 1832, which laid the groundwork for amending the Constitution of 1824 in the next legislature. To articulate the parliamentary work with other areas of south-central policy of the Empire - as the periodical press and the political societies - the idea is to restore the discussion of reform during this period that, though short, is revealing in terms the possibilities, uncertainties, advances and retreats that surrounded the "reformist cry" of the early 1830s.