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What European country colonized Brazil?
What is Portugal?
How many branches of government does Brazil have?
What is 3?
What major social right did the 1988 Constitution make universal?
What is health care?
How many senators does each Brazilian state have?
What are three senators per state?
In what year did Brazil return to democracy?
What is 1985?
The 1822 declaration of independence created what kind of state?
What is a constitutional monarchy?
What type of republic is Brazil - unitary or federal?
What is Federal Republic?
Which group’s ancestral land rights were formally recognized in 1988?
Who are indigenous people?
What system ensures that a president must have majority support to win an election?
What is the two-round (runoff) system?
Who was Brazil’s first civilian president after the dictatorship?
Who is José Sarney?
Who was the dictator that ruled Brazil for most of the 1930s and 1940s?
Who is Getúlio Vargas?
What is the name of Brazil’s highest court?
What is Supreme Federal Court?
What environmental article (number or principle) guarantees a right to an ecologically balanced environment?
What is Article 225?
What’s one challenge caused by Brazil’s multiparty system?
What is fragmentation?
Which social movement in the 1980s demanded direct elections for president?
What is Diretas Já movement?
What year did Brazil’s military dictatorship begin?
What is 1964?
Voting in Brazil is mandatory for most citizens. True or False?
True
Name one way the Constitution protects workers.
What are limits on working hours (44-hour week), paid vacations, protection against arbitrary dismissal, maternity/paternity leave?
Who appoints Supreme Federal Court justices?
Who is the President of the Republic (with Senate approval)?
What recent president rose from union activism to national power?
What is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula)?
What event in the 1980s led to the drafting of Brazil’s democratic constitution?
What is The Diretas Já movement?
Name two fundamental principles listed in the 1988 Constitution.
What are sovereignty, citizenship, human dignity, social values of work and free enterprise, political pluralism?
Why is the 1988 Constitution nicknamed the ‘Citizen Constitution’?
Because it restored democracy and expanded citizens’ rights, emphasizing participation, equality, and social justice.
What is the term used to describe the president’s need to form coalitions among many small parties?
What is coalition presidentialism?
What’s one major debate about the future of Brazil’s Constitution today?
What are calls for constitutional reform to streamline governance, debates over judicial power and separation of powers, balancing social rights with economic sustainability, protection of the Amazon and Indigenous rights?