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    Brazil is a federative republic with a presidential regime divided into 27 states and the Federal District. The government has executive, legislative, and judicial branches with power shared between federal and state levels. The 1988 constitution established democratic elections and protections for individual rights after a period of military dictatorship. It also defines Brazil's civil law legal system with federal and state courts applying civil and common law. Brazil has had a strong economy in recent decades due to investments and policies promoting industrialization and independence from other countries.

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    Brazil is a federative republic with a presidential regime divided into 27 states and the Federal District. The government has executive, legislative, and judicial branches with power shared between federal and state levels. The 1988 constitution established democratic elections and protections for individual rights after a period of military dictatorship. It also defines Brazil's civil law legal system with federal and state courts applying civil and common law. Brazil has had a strong economy in recent decades due to investments and policies promoting industrialization and independence from other countries.

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    Brazil is a federative republic with a presidential regime divided into 27 states and the Federal District. The government has executive, legislative, and judicial branches with power shared between federal and state levels. The 1988 constitution established democratic elections and protections for individual rights after a period of military dictatorship. It also defines Brazil's civil law legal system with federal and state courts applying civil and common law. Brazil has had a strong economy in recent decades due to investments and policies promoting industrialization and independence from other countries.

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    GOVERNMENT

    Brazil is a Federative Republic with a democratic state, formed by a central state with a
    presidential regime, which is administratively divided into twenty-seven states including
    the Federal District, with a total of 5,024 municipalities. The Government is exercised in
    base of the main three constituted powers: Executive, Legislative and Judicial, with a
    presidential regime. Nowadays, Brazil is divided in regions, communities and others
    territorial administrative divisions which enjoy different levels autonomy.

    According to the Brazilian Constitution which was promulgated in 1988 is important for
    the State preserved the investments made in some sectors of the economy. At the same time
    the constitution gave grants broad powers to the federal government consisting of
    executive, legislative, and judicial branches, due to that for the presidential role, was
    stipulated that the office could be holds for four years by democratic elections, bringing the
    right to re-election for an additional four-year.

    In other hand, the Brazilian courts of jurisdiction operate under civil law and the adversarial
    system, this branch is organized in the federal and state systems with different jurisdictions.
    The president has the responsibility of appointed the justices of the higher courts and then
    it´s have to be approved by the Senate; the judges of the courts of the first level take office
    after the public position and the second level judges are elected by the first level judges.

    Along of the history Brazil has become on a state which always played an important active
    role in the Latin-American economy due to making investments in many sectors; with this
    another great strategy was framed within an import substitution process, that give to Brazil
    a real independence from others countries, about that was based the main objective for the
    policy State industrial; which has achieved that the Brazil's economy has become in one of
    the world's leading, in 2003 it was driven by an increase in the volume and price of
    international demand for raw materials and commodities, principally in minerals, oil, coal,
    and meat; at the same time 2003 was accompanied by the entry of new capitals and a set of
    structural reforms. This achieved a great result in macroeconomic stability with a reduction
    in poverty levels, making an expansion of social assistance programs.
    CONSTITUTION OF BRAZIL

    Brazil has had seven Constitutions since its independence, promulgated in: 1824, 1891,
    1934, 1937, 1946, 1967 and 1988. Brazil is a democratic state of law, the nowadays
    Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil is the seventh enacted since the country's
    independence in 1822 and the sixth since the proclamation of the republic in 1889 which
    was promulgated on 5 October 1988, its took two-year to be written because it was from
    scratch. also was created the Consumers' Defense Code (enacted in 1990), of a Children's
    and Youth Code in 1990 and of a new Civil Code in 2002.

    It provides the framework for the organization of the Brazilian government and for the
    relationship of government with other states, citizens, and to all people within Brazil, being
    the foundation and source of the legal authority. The current Constitution of Brazil was a
    reaction to the military dictatorship, for that reasons this sought to guarantee individual
    rights, limiting the state for restrict the freedom for the people and regulating individual
    life, beside to punish offences; according to this it was the first constitution to demand
    severe punishment for breaches of civil rights. Brazil later approved a law making the
    propagation of prejudice against any minority or ethnic group an unbailable crime, which
    helped to improve the reserved percentage of jobs in the public service for disabled people
    and give the space Afro-Brazilians to seek reparation for racism in court.

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