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Abstract
Part of the systemic crisis of the Portuguese Ancien Regime, Bahia received
with enthusiasm the news on the Porto Liberal Revolution (1820). From
then on, a number of political actions occurred in the capital (Salvador),
which aimed mainly to reassure a fast and decisive adhesion to the consti-
tutional system. Observing the liberal discourse, different social segments
positioned themselves against the absolute government and, in February
1821, proclaimed the Revolution Constitutionalist linking, thus, the Bahian
Province to the “General, Extraordinary and Constituents Courts of the
Portuguese Nation”. The article focuses on how the constitutional political
turmoil favored the elaboration of distinct liberal projects, making possible
the political participation political of the popular classes in a revolutionary
context whose horizons were still to be defined.
Palavras-chave
Bahia, constituição, história política, homens livres pobres
Keywords
Bahia, constitution, political history, poor free people