THE PERFORMANCE OF JOSÉ DA SILVA LISBOA (VISCOUNT OF CAIRU) AS A DEPUTY IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY OF 1823This article aims to address the concerns of José da Silva Lisboa as a political agent and his role as a deputy in the Constituent Assembly of 1823. Although the future Viscount of Cairu is recognized by tradition as the introducer of Political Economy and liberalism in the Portuguese-Brazilian world, his interventions in those debates were more focused on political and religious issues, fundamentally he advocated for political centralization, bolstering the Executive Branch’s authority, and upholding Catholicism as the nascent Brazilian State’s official religion rather than economic issues. This research adopts the hypothesis that Lisbon’s forays into these topics reveal positions that limit and contradict a liberal economic conception, presenting a paradoxical thought in which conservatism coexists with a peculiar vision of liberalism, typical of a world in transition.
Keywords:
Silva Lisboa (Viscount of Cairu) - Brazilian Constitutional Assembly (1823) - State Organization - Liberalism