Abstract
THE HISTORY OF DEMOCRACY in Brazil is tortuous. Since its independence from Portugal on September 7, 1822, Brazil has had eight constitutions, only two of which were created by genuinely democratic processes. Throughout its history as an independent nation, Brazil has contended with alternating periods of flourishing democracy and withering authoritarianism, the most recent of the latter being a military dictatorship that lasted from a coup d’etat on March 31, 1964, until 1985.
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