 Complete the following phrase:  Many of the most profound transformations achieved under Pedro II would survive him. Concepts such as a representative political system and a paradigm of citizenship had been allowed to flourish and become ingrained under the Empire, so much so that they survived during three succeeding regimes: the Old Republic 18891930, the Vargas Era 193045, the Liberal Republic 194564. The concept of a nation-state, as envisioned by Pedro II, was even appropriated by the military which 