Area Handbook for Brazil

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 - 725 pages
 

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Page 269 - President, except that they are not empowered to issue decrees having the force of law. All powers not explicitly or implicitly forbidden them by the Constitution are reserved to the States, which are empowered to establish their own Constitutions and governments in accordance with the fundamental principles of the Federal Constitution. The autonomy of the municipalities, the only territorial subdivisions of the States, is also guaranteed by constitutional provisions. In practice, the broad powers...
Page 18 - Japanese immigrants tended to concentrate in nationality colonies, particularly in the States of Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul.
Page 195 - During the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth, the politicians of the country were the sons of the agricultural aristocracy who had been educated in the country's two schools of law. In the second half of the nineteenth century the sons of an emerging commercial and bureaucratic bourgeoisie began to enter these and the new technical schools which had come into existence (see ch.
Page iii - The emphasis is on objective description of the nation's present society and the kinds of possible or probable change that might be expected in the future. The handbook seeks to present as full and as balanced an integrated exposition as limitations on space and research time permit. It was compiled from information available in openly published material. Extensive bibliographies are provided to permit recourse to other published sources for more detailed information. There has been no attempt to...
Page 244 - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica, Conselho Nacional de Estatistica, Anudrio Estatistico do Brasil, 1961, p. 16. 6 Conselho Nacional de Economia, "O Problema Nacional das Secas,
Page 290 - ... own communities and States — and there is plenty of it which needs to be done. This constructive work might be either full-time employment, or part-time employment supplemented by subsistence farming. Accomplishment of these two purposes is going to call for the fullest cooperation between agencies within the Federal Government and between the Federal Government and the States.
Page 17 - NE consists of the states of Maranhao, Piaui, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, a north central piece of Minas Gerais and the island of Fernando de Noronha.
Page 383 - new force," I am not alluding to a military one, but to the fact that a nation, heretofore almost unknown, is prepared to bring to bear on the play of world pressures the economic and human potential it represents, and the knowledge reaped from experience that we have a right to believe is of positive value.
Page iii - University, designed to be useful to military and other personnel who need a convenient compilation of basic facts about the social, economic, political and military institutions and practices of various countries.
Page 515 - There was a sense of noblesse oblige and paternalism on the part of the patrdo and a sense of duty, loyalty, and dependence on the part of the worker.

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