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  2. Politics of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil is a federal presidential constitutional republic, based on representative democracy. The federal government has three independent branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. Executive power is exercised by the executive branch, headed by the President, advised by a Cabinet. The President is both the head of state and the head of ...

  3. Military dictatorship in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The military dictatorship in Brazil (Portuguese: ditadura militar), occasionally referred to as the Fifth Brazilian Republic, [3] [4] was established on 1 April 1964, after a coup d'état by the Brazilian Armed Forces, with support from the United States government, [5] against president João Goulart. The Brazilian dictatorship lasted for 21 ...

  4. Constitution of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    It replaced the autocratic 1967 constitution capping 21 years of military dictatorship and establishing Brazil's 6th republic, also known as the New Republic (Nova República). Made in the light of the Brazilian transition to democracy , it resignified the role of the state in the citizens' lives, providing a vast system of human and individual ...

  5. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Rule by a government based on consensus democracy. Military junta: Rule by a committee of military leaders. Nomocracy: Rule by a government under the sovereignty of rational laws and civic right as opposed to one under theocratic systems of government. In a nomocracy, ultimate and final authority (sovereignty) exists in the law. Cyberocracy

  6. Benevolent dictatorship - Wikipedia

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    The pun is that, in Spanish, dictadura is "dictatorship", dura is "hard" and blanda is "soft". Analogously, the same pun is made in Portuguese as ditabranda or ditamole. In February 2009, the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo ran an editorial classifying the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964–1985) as a "ditabranda", creating ...

  7. Fourth Brazilian Republic - Wikipedia

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    The Fourth Brazilian Republic, also known as the "Populist Republic" or as the "Republic of 46", is the period of Brazilian history between 1946 and 1964. It was marked by political instability and the military's pressure on civilian politicians which ended with the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état and the establishment of the Brazilian military dictatorship.

  8. Brazil Supreme Court strikes down military intervention ... - AOL

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    Brazil’s Supreme Court unanimously voted Monday that the armed forces have no constitutional power to intervene in disputes between government branches, a largely symbolic decision aimed at ...

  9. Hybrid regime - Wikipedia

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    Guided democracy, also called directed democracy [110] and managed democracy, [111] [112] is a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto authoritarian government or, in some cases, as an autocratic government. [113] Such hybrid regimes are legitimized by elections, but do not change the state's policies, motives, and goals ...