Print version ISSN 0104-8775 BASILE, Marcello. The good example
of Washinton: republicanism in Rio de Janeiro (c.1830-1835).
Varia hist. [online]. 2011, vol.27, n.45, pp. 17-45. ISSN
0104-8775. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-87752011000100002.
This paper analyses the development of republicanism in the
capital of Brazilian Empire, in the end of the First Reign and
the beginning of the regency period. It argues that this
movement was an important part of the political project produced
by a radical group called liberais exaltados. They employed
several tricks to by-pass the laws that forbade to vindicate the
republican government, denoting thus different manners to
support the republic. However, more than an apology for a
specific form of government, the republic language of this time
articulated in a system of ideas a broad array of radical
political, social and economic changes that aimed to depurate
the "absolutist" remainders of State and the "aristocratic"
characters of the Brazilian society. These so-cal