Aspectos históricos da construção da sub(cidadania) no Brasil: o tortuoso percurso do estado social e os desafios do (jovem) constitucionalismo dirigente em “terrae brasilis”

Abstract

This article brings a historical approach of the brazilian modernity, focusing on the lack of an effective Welfare State able to implement its promisses and, consequently, to improve the poor life conditions of its citzens. Thus, with a sociological support, this work discusses how a process of naturalization of inequality from exclusions promoted by the State itself is developed. Moreover, it brings up the way the brazilian “civilizatory process” has been developed, as well as the lack of a republican tradition. In this difficult scenario, an ideal of a directive constitucionalism arises, with well designed objectives aiming at correcting what may be called a “political suffering” for a huge number of braziliansubcitizens.