Abstract
Liberals forced the link between constitutionalism and human rights which had, as a consequence, the erasure of the Enlightenment reforms that focused on human dignity. The present text has the objective, for the reign of D. José and the government of Pombal, to deconstruct part of the «demonization» of this myth and of this political manipulation, in company, also, with measures taken in the opposite direction. In conclusion, an analysis of the paradoxical figure of Pombal, detractor and precursor of human rights.
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