Entre o local e o provincial

os Conselhos Gerais de Província e as Câmaras Municipais, São Paulo e Minas Gerais (1828-1834)

Abstract

This article aims to assay the relationship between the two main organs
responsible for the local authorities construction throughout the First
Reign and the beginning of the Regency: the General Councils and
Municipal Councils. The Municipal Councils have served as privileged
sphere of local government since the colonial period, while the General
Councils, determined by the 1824 Constitution, functioned as the main
channels of political representation at the provincial level to the Additional
Act (1834). Priority will be given here the General Councils and Municipal
Councils of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, that choice is not fortuitous.
Along with Rio court, Minas Gerais and São Paulo were key pieces in
the construction of the political axis that gave support to the idea of a
constitutional monarchy based in Rio de Janeiro.