HIST 8B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Industriales, Latifundium, Economic Liberalism
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The republican state of brazil arose on november 16 1889 thanks to the army. Army"s goal for republican brazil: balance order with progress the army possessed a large influence over the nation"s politics. Overriding determination to turn brazil into a great power in the modern world. The democratic constitution approved in 1891 was the work of rui barbosa a lawyer from the state of bahia in the north-east and a radical liberal republican who had been a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery. The constitution of 1891 was modeled after the us. Gave brazil a federal structure consisting of 20 self-governing states with a national gov headed by a directly elected president answerable to a senate and a chamber of deputies. The traditional politics of an oligarchic and unequal society remained in brazil. Politics at the national level consisted of rivalry between regional elites.
