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SUPREME FEDERAL COURT CONSTITUTION of the Federative Republic of Brazil ISBN 978-85-61435-75-2 Constitution of the Federative Republic Brazil of the of Constitution Federative SUPREME FEDERAL COURT Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil Constitutional text enacted on October 5, 1988, with the alterations established by Revision Constitutional Amendments 1, 1994 through 6, 1994, and by Constitutional Amendments 1, 1992 through 101, 2019. Brasília 2019 General Secretariat of the Presidency General Office Daiane Nogueira de Lira Eduardo Silva Toledo Office of Documentation International Affairs Office Naiara Cabeleira de Araújo Pichler Joel Souza Pinto Sampaio André Nogueira Rangel Varanda Wollman Proofreading Ana Valéria de Oliveira Teixeira, Daniela Pires Cardoso, Fábio Mendes Marzano, Felipe Justino de Farias, Flávia Trigueiro Mendes Patriota, Flávio Brito, Juliana Silva Pereira de Souza, Sandra Regina Castro da Silva, and Vitória Carvalho Costa Graphic Design Project Constitution of the Eduardo Franco Dias Federative Republic of Brazil The English version of the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil was extracted from the website of the Chamber of Deputies. The text of the amendments was translated by Felipe Justino de Farias and Flávia Trigueiro Mendes Patriota. Dados Internacionais de Catalogação na Publicação (CIP) (Supremo Tribunal Federal – Biblioteca Ministro Victor Nunes Leal) Brasil. [Constituição (1988)]. Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil. -- Brasília : STF, Secre- taria de Documentação, 2019. Constitutional text enacted on October 5, 1988, with the alterations established by Revision Constitutional Amendments 1,1994 through 6, 1994, and Constitutional Amendments 1, 1992 through 101, 2019. Disponível também em formato eletrônico: <http://www.stf.jus.br/arquivo/ cms/legislacaoConstituicao/anexo/CF_ingles.pdf> ISBN: 978-85-54223-07-6 1. Direito constitucional, legislação, Brasil. 2. Constituição, Brasil, 1988. 3. Emenda constitucional, Brasil. I. Título CDDir-341.2481 SUPREME FEDERAL COURT Justice José Antonio Dias Toffoli (10-23-2009), Chief Justice Justice Luiz Fux (3-3-2011), Deputy Chief Justice Justice José Celso de Mello Filho (8-17-1989), Senior Justice Marco Aurélio Mendes de Farias Mello (6-13-1990) Justice Gilmar Ferreira Mendes (6-20-2002) Justice Enrique Ricardo Lewandowski (3-16-2006) Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha (6-21-2006) Justice Rosa Maria Pires Weber (12-19 -2011) Justice Luís Roberto Barroso (6-26 -2013) Justice Luiz Edson Fachin (6-16-2015) Justice Alexandre de Moraes (3-22-2017) TABLE OF CONTENTS Preamble 11 Title I – Fundamental Principles (articles 1 to 4) 13 Title II – Fundamental Rights and Guarantees (articles 5 to 17) 15 Chapter I – Individual and Collective Rights and Duties (article 5) 15 Chapter II – Social Rights (articles 6 to 11) 21 Chapter III – Nationality (articles 12 and 13) 25 Chapter IV – Political Rights (articles 14 to 16) 26 Chapter V – Political Parties (article 17) 28 Title III – The Organization of the State (articles 18 to 43) 31 Chapter I – The Political and Administrative Organization (articles 18 and 19) 31 Chapter II – The Union (articles 20 to 24) 32 Chapter III – The Federated States (articles 25 to 28) 37 Chapter IV – The Municipalities (articles 29 to 31) 39 Chapter V – The Federal District and the Territories (articles 32 and 33) 44 Section I – The Federal District (article 32) 44 Section II – The Territories (article 33) 44 Chapter VI – Intervention (articles 34 to 36) 45 Chapter VII – Public Administration (articles 37 to 43) 47 Section I – General Provisions (articles 37 and 38) 47 Section II – Government Employees (articles 39 to 41) 51 Section III – The Military of the States, of the Federal District and of the Territories (article 42) 56 Section IV – The Regions (article 43) 57 Title IV – The Organization of the Powers (articles 44 to 135) 59 Chapter I – The Legislative Power (articles 44 to 75) 59 Section I – The National Congress (articles 44 to 47) 59 Section II – Powers of the National Congress (articles 48 to 50) 60 Section III – The Chamber of Deputies (article 51) 62 Section IV – The Federal Senate (article 52) 63 Section V – Deputies and Senators (articles 53 to 56) 64 Section VI – The Sessions (article 57) 67 Section VII – The Committees (article 58) 68 Section VIII – The Legislative Process (articles 59 to 69) 69 Subsection I – General Provision (article 59) 69 Subsection II – Amendments to the Constitution (article 60) 69 Subsection III – The Laws (articles 61 to 69) 70 Section IX – Accounting, Financial and Budgetary Control (articles 70 to 75) 74 Chapter II – The Executive Power (articles 76 to 91) 78 Section I – The President and the Vice-President of the Republic (articles 76 to 83) 78 Section II – Duties of the President of the Republic (article 84) 80 Section III – Liability of the President of the Republic (articles 85 to 86) 82 Section IV – The Ministers of State (articles 87 and 88) 83 Section V – The Council of the Republic and the National Defence Council (articles 89 to 91) 84 Subsection I – The Council of the Republic (articles 89 and 90) 84 Subsection II – The National Defence Council (article 91) 84 Chapter III – The Judicial Power (articles 92 to 126) 85 Section I – General Provisions (articles 92 to 100) 85 Section II – The Supreme Federal Court (articles 101 to 103‑B) 94 Section III – The Superior Court of Justice (articles 104 and 105) 99 Section IV – The Federal Regional Courts and the Federal Judges (articles 106 to 110) 101 Section V – Labour Courts and Judges (articles 111 to 117) 104 Section VI – Electoral Courts and Judges (articles 118 to 121) 106 Section VII – Military Courts and Judges (articles 122 to 124) 108 Section VIII – Courts and Judges of the States (articles 125 and 126) 109 Chapter IV – The Functions Essential to Justice (articles 127 to 135) 110 Section I – The Public Prosecution (articles 127 to 130‑A) 110 Section II – The Public Advocacy (articles 131 and 132) 114 Section III – The Legal Profession (article 133) 115 Section IV – The Public Legal Defence (articles 134 and 135) 115 Title V – The Defence of the State and of the Democratic Institutions (articles 136 to 144) 117 Chapter I – The State of Defence and the State of Siege (articles 136 to 141) 117 Section I – The State of Defence (article 136) 117 Section II – The State of Siege (articles 137 to 139) 118 Section III – General Provisions (articles 140 and 141) 119 Chapter II – The Armed Forces (articles 142 and 143) 120 Chapter III – Public Security (article 144) 121 Title VI – Taxation and Budget (articles 145 to 169) 125 Chapter I – The National Tax System (articles 145 to 162) 125 Section I – General Principles (articles 145 to 149‑A) 125 Section II – Limitations on the Power to Tax (articles 150 to 152) 127 Section III – Federal Taxes (articles 153 and 154) 130 Section IV – State and Federal District Taxes (article 155) 131 Section V – Municipal Taxes (article 156) 134 Section VI – Tax Revenue Sharing (articles 157 to 162) 135 Chapter II – Public Finances (articles 163 to 169) 138 Section I – General Rules (articles 163 and 164) 138 Section II – Budgets (articles 165 to 169) 139 Title VII – The Economic and Financial Order (articles 170 to 192) 147 Chapter I – The General Principles of the Economic Activity (articles 170 to 181) 147 Chapter II – Urban Policy (articles 182 to 183) 151 Chapter III – Agricultural and Land Policy and Agrarian Reform (articles 184 to 191) 152 Chapter IV – The National Financial System (article 192) 154 Title VIII – The Social Order (articles 193 to 232) 157 Chapter I – General Provision (article 193) 157 Chapter II – Social Welfare (articles 194 to 204) 157 Section I – General Provisions (articles 194 and 195) 157 Section II – Health (articles 196 to 200) 159 Section III – Social Security (articles 201 and 202) 162 Section IV – Social Assistance (articles 203 and 204) 165 Chapter III – Education, Culture and Sports (articles 205 to 217) 166 Section I – Education (articles 205 to 214) 166 Section II – Culture (articles 215 to 216‑A) 170 Section III – Sports (article 217) 172 Chapter IV – Science, Technology, and Innovation (articles 218 to 219‑B) 173 Chapter V – Social Communication (articles 220 to 224) 174 Chapter VI – Environment (article 225) 176 Chapter VII – Family, Children, Adolescents, Young People and Elderly (articles 226 to 230) 178 Chapter VIII – Indians (articles 231 and 232) 180 Title IX – General Constitutional Provisions (articles 233 to 250) 183 Temporary Constitutional Provisions Act 191 Revision Constitutional Amendments 247 Constitutional Amendments 251 PREAMBLE We, the representatives of the Brazilian People, convened in the National Constit‑ uent Assembly to institute a democratic state for the purpose of ensuring the exercise of social and individual rights, liberty, security, well ‑being, development, equality and justice as supreme values of a fraternal, pluralist and unprejudiced society, founded on social harmony and committed, in the internal and international orders, to the peaceful settlement of disputes, promulgate, under the protection of God, this Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil. 11 Editor’s note: The alterations deriving from the Constitutional Amendments (CA) and from the Revision Constitutional Amendments (RCA) have already been incorporated into the main text. The modifying amendments are mentioned in parentheses at the end of the head paragraph of altered articles. Other pieces of information are indicated by numbered footnotes. 12 Article 4, II TITLE I Fundamental Principles Article 1. The Federative Republic of Brazil, formed by the indissoluble union of the states and municipalities and of the Federal District, is a legal democratic state and is founded on: I – sovereignty; II – citizenship; III – the dignity of the human person; IV – the social values of labour and of the free enterprise; V – political pluralism. Sole paragraph. All power emanates from the people, who exercise it by means of elected representatives or directly, as provided by this Constitution.