**Context**: Francisco Campos was a prominent Brazilian jurist between the 1930s and 1960s, pioneering a constitutional doctrine marked by anti-liberalism, corporatism, and authoritarianism.
Initially an ally of Getúlio Vargas, he was appointed Minister of Justice in 1937 and actively participated in the self-coup decree issued that same year. It was his work that created the 1937 Constitution, also known as the Polish Constitution, which restricted the right to freedom of expression and demonstration, closed Congress, and established Vargas as a dictator, modeled after the Portuguese Estado Novo. This constitution remained in effect until the promulgation of the liberal constitution of 1945.
In 1944, he began to advocate for the country’s redemocratization and rejected the fascist nature of the Constitution. The following year, he participated in the political and military negotiations that led to Vargas’s removal and the end of the Estado Novo.
During the Populist Republic (1945-1964), he emerged as a leading right-wing ideologue, advocating liberal and agrarian economic positions. In 1964, he participated in conspiracies against the government of President João Goulart.
After the establishment of the military regime, he once again collaborated in the construction of an authoritarian institutional framework for the country, participating in the drafting of the first two Institutional Acts enacted by the new regime (AI-1 and AI-2) and submitting suggestions for the drafting of the 1967 Constitution.
Known as *Chico Ciência* (Chico Science) due to his broad intellectual capacity, Campos died in September 1968, months before the enactment of Institutional Act No. 5, which further oppressed the dictatorship with the suspension of habeas corpus and the institutionalized torture and disappearance of people by the Brazilian state.
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Ironically, it was during the military dictatorship period that Brazil became the first country to recognize the independence of my mom’s country, Angola.
The Itamaraty was handing out Brazilian citizenship like candy to Angolan refugees in that period, given our common history as two Portuguese ex-colonies. Which allowed my mom to flee the war and settle in Brazilian soil.
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**Context**: Francisco Campos was a prominent Brazilian jurist between the 1930s and 1960s, pioneering a constitutional doctrine marked by anti-liberalism, corporatism, and authoritarianism.
Initially an ally of Getúlio Vargas, he was appointed Minister of Justice in 1937 and actively participated in the self-coup decree issued that same year. It was his work that created the 1937 Constitution, also known as the Polish Constitution, which restricted the right to freedom of expression and demonstration, closed Congress, and established Vargas as a dictator, modeled after the Portuguese Estado Novo. This constitution remained in effect until the promulgation of the liberal constitution of 1945.
In 1944, he began to advocate for the country’s redemocratization and rejected the fascist nature of the Constitution. The following year, he participated in the political and military negotiations that led to Vargas’s removal and the end of the Estado Novo.
During the Populist Republic (1945-1964), he emerged as a leading right-wing ideologue, advocating liberal and agrarian economic positions. In 1964, he participated in conspiracies against the government of President João Goulart.
After the establishment of the military regime, he once again collaborated in the construction of an authoritarian institutional framework for the country, participating in the drafting of the first two Institutional Acts enacted by the new regime (AI-1 and AI-2) and submitting suggestions for the drafting of the 1967 Constitution.
Known as *Chico Ciência* (Chico Science) due to his broad intellectual capacity, Campos died in September 1968, months before the enactment of Institutional Act No. 5, which further oppressed the dictatorship with the suspension of habeas corpus and the institutionalized torture and disappearance of people by the Brazilian state.
Ironically, it was during the military dictatorship period that Brazil became the first country to recognize the independence of my mom’s country, Angola.
The Itamaraty was handing out Brazilian citizenship like candy to Angolan refugees in that period, given our common history as two Portuguese ex-colonies. Which allowed my mom to flee the war and settle in Brazilian soil.