First Brazilian Constitution

On the other hand, the ideas written in the project of the members of the house of representatives nothing had pleased the emperor, therefore it limited its power. In reply the Assembly, it wrote a letter, known as Great Letter, that says the following one in one of its paragraphs:? While the attributions will not be determined must compete that me as Emperor Constitucional and Perpetual Defensor of this Empire, I do not sign nor I make to execute decree some of the Assembly, that was convoked with the primary end to make the Constitution, and, according to which, is that if it must proceed to the prescribed laws, after it being for accepted me. The opposite to the project, D. Peter appealed to the military forces that, under its command, the Constituent in November of 1823 closed. Many members of the house of representatives imprisoned and had been exiled, also the Andrada brothers. The closing of the Constitutional conventional provoked the reaction of the representatives of the Brazilian Party, group formed for great land proprietors and traders of the center-south, that had supported the independence process. To calm the spirits, emperor D.Pedro I nominated an Advice of State, formed for 10 members of born Brazilians, to help it to write it the Constitution in the stated period of 40 days. Concluded the work, in day 25 of March of 1824, D. Peter granted to the First Brazilian Constitution, that is, it imposed the new Constitution that among others things, it determined: a hereditary monarchy, officialization of the religion catholic, creation of a new to be able, the room to be able called Moderator, that gave to emperor Constitutional Absolutismo, substituting the project of Constitutional Monarchy. In such way, the unitarianism was established in the country with the Constitution, government form that centers the power in the capital of the National State (Rio De Janeiro).