The invasion of the seats of Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Federal Supreme Court (STF), last Sunday (8) should give new impetus, within the Judiciary, to the defense of a theory known as “militant democracy”, also called “defensive democracy” by some authors.
This is an idea developed in 1937 by the German jurist of Jewish origin Karl Loewenstein (1891-1973). He proposed that democracy had to have mechanisms to protect . . .
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