30 years of the Brazilian Constitution and the obstacles to access to your "Engine Room": the Exclusive Constituent as a performative understanding of the meaning of Constitution

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Deivide Júlio
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Viana, Igor Campos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ciências do Estado (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revice/article/view/e5121
• topic: Brazilian Constitution; Machine room; Exclusive constituent; Performative constitutionalism; Constituição Brasileira; Sala de máquinas; Constitucionalismo performativo; Constituinte exclusiva; Constitución brasileña; Sala de máquinas; Constituyente exclusivo; Constitucionalismo performativo

In this article, we propose to present a delimited vision of the problems faced in the last 30 years of democratic constitutionalism in Brazil through a debate with the idea of access to the "engine room" of the constitution presented by Roberto Gargarella. Our delimited vision focuses on the dispute for the exclusive constituent in 2013-2014 in Brazil. These problems are closely related: (i) to a strictly normative reading of the Constitution; (ii) the belief that the problem of popular sovereignty would be exclusively related to the concentration of powers in the Executive and; (iii) to disbelief in the immanent dispute of the sense of constitution embodied in social struggles. The confrontation of these problems demands us to think of a constitutional theory that is built on its own critical, performative and precarious practice. Thus, we bet on the initial lines of what we suggest to be a Performative Constitutionalism.