Abstract
DOI: 10.1590/2179-8966/2020/49456 Abstract The article presents what it conceives as the three main constitutional theories on the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. Drawing on Partha Chatterjee, it thus presents a deconstructive approach to an important underlying distinction behind all those theories: the distinction between Civil Society and State. It claims that, in order to understand the political system in postcolonial contexts, a different distinction is needed: namely the distinction between Civil Society and Population. Keywords: Brazilian Constitutionalism; Postcolonialism; Critical Theory. Resumo O texto apresenta tres teorias constitucionais que orientaram o pensamento e a pratica constitucional no contexto da Carta de 1988: a teoria da efetividade constitucional, a teoria da constituicao dirigente e a teoria critica da constituicao. A partir de uma interpretacao do teorico politico indiano Partha Chatterjee, o artigo apresenta uma proposta desconstrutiva da distincao entre Estado e Sociedade civil que orienta, em diferentes medidas, essas tres teorias constitucionais, chamando a atencao para outra distincao: Sociedade Civil/Populacao. Palavras-chave: Constitucionalismo brasileiro; Constituicao de 1988; Pos-Colonialismo; Teoria Critica.
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