Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos: realpolitik and defence of warranties individual freedoms in Brazil Imperial

Abstract

Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos was a statesman of the era of the Empire in Brazil, and contributed to the birth of our first institutions, besides being a predecessor of fundamental rights pertaining to freedom. Although he was an adeptor of slavery and monarchy, he has always been a critic of his time in Brazil, and the precursor of the prediction rules of the principle of due process and natural judge, having been one of the leaders of the movement of 1831, which culminated with the deposition of Dom Pedro I. His intelligence and political pragmatism was observed by José Murilo de Carvalho, as a practitioner of realpolitik.