A country that is not used to democracy leads its residents and especially its political class to always act to defend their own interests. It started with independence that was proclaimed by the son of the King of Portugal from which everyone wanted to get rid of, but so that “no adventurer was handed over,” he decided to become a proclamation made by those who were already in power. After this moment, another historical fact, which occurred exactly 175 years ago, produced the rule on the “pedaling” that we lived to this day. On July 23, 1840, the heir was declared by the throne, Dom Pedro of the older age.
To explain this situation, you must return even more in history. On April 7, 1831, Dom Pedro abdicated in the throne in favor of his son Pedro de Alcântara, then five years old, because he wanted to return to Portugal to govern that country.
Obviously, the heir was very young to handle even though it was the moderating power and to govern the country a triune regency was created. José Bonifácio, chosen to be a supervisor for the young prince, led this regency, succeeded by Diogo Feijó and later Lima E Silva. “The Anticipation of Dom Pedro’s Adulthood Happened Due to Political Pressures of All Kinds, There Were Even Those Who Asked The Return of Dom Pedro I”, Analyzed Célio Debes, A Historian Who Occupies the Chairs Number Five of the São Paulo Academ Of Consensus to the Political Impasse On Who Was the True Mandate of the Nation, Led to the Decision to Anticipate the Adulthood of Pedro II.
After all, in a parliamentary monarchy, the young prince would only decide issues such as a final case and advised by a legal body. Despite this, the political conflicts to Feijó continued that he had conducted the conducting in São Paulo, together with Tobias de Aguiar, the liberal revolt in 1842.
The historian evaluates that Brazil today in some respects is similar to the same country in the past due to the lack of political and administrative balance that leads us to more serious or less serious situations. “Just open a Brazilian newspaper at any time, the political side always reveals topics involved in excitement and Impasse,” he notes. Célio Debes points out that the only difference between the present and the 1800s Brazil is in the fact that there is currently freedom of the press that did not occur during previous periods.
In fact, the game of interests and financial difficulties, not to mention the steel, get the country to live in grace of the countless political maneuvers. Recently, the House of Representatives discussed the proposal to reduce the age of crime from 16 to 18 years, which was rejected in one section and was approved in another next day by the same legislative house and this is also a “pedaling”.
In Brazil, between 1822 and 1927, all minors who practiced some kind of crime would receive the same treatment that was dismissed to villains, Capoeiras and stray. When they were caught, they were all scared in prison. In March 1926, the newspapers brought a scary story about the 12 -year -old boy Bernardino, who got his life as a shoe in Rio de Janeiro. He was arrested for throwing ink at a client who refused to pay for polishing his boots.
During the four weeks that spent locked up in a cell with 20 adult LED Bernardino all types of violence. Reporters found the boy on Santa Casa “in a pitiful state” and “In the midst of the most vibrant annoyance of the doctors who participated in him, the magazine told. It was the uprising caused by this news that led on October 12, 1927, then and with President Washington Luiz to sign a law that would be called less code.
It was this set of laws that found that the young man is unintentional until he was 17 and that only from 18 will respond criminally and can be sentenced to prison. What is being discussed now in the country is the reduction in criminal age to 16 years.
But be aware that changes in the law can bring back cases with Bernardino, although it has been 89 years. After all, Brazil of maneuvers and tramps is still the same.