O executivo provincial e a administração da justiça: uma análise da consolidação do Estado nacional brasileiro sob a ótica dos presidentes da Província de Minas Gerais (1850-1860)

Abstract

The proposal of this dissertation is to understand the process of constitution of the Brazilian State, tends as abordagem focus the texts produced by the provincial presidents from Minas Gerais, in face of its speeches for maintenance of the public order and its critics and proposals for the administration of the justice in the period among 1850-1860. The presidents' Reports, primordial sources in the development of the research, they are analyzed to understand the adversities that the delegates of the boss of the Nation faced when perpetrating the national cause in a county marked by the economic diversity and for the political singularity. Starting from this rising, the objective is to contemplate about the conception of the representatives' of the State Justice in the county and to identify that way the presidents produced and they diffused in its registrations the mote of the maintenance of the order as one of the indispensable conditions for the development of the prosperity in the county. Before these subjects, the purpose is to glimpse the limits, but also the possibilities of action of the provincial Executive in the process of consolidation of the National State.