Abstract
The purpose of this article is to observe the performance of Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) in the years 1908-1911 with regard to two main political issues discussed at that time: electoral dualities and requests for federal interventions. To do so, we used as a historical source the law magazine O Direito, one of the main means of dissemination of the activities and jurisprudence of Brazilian Judiciary in the First Republic. Focusing on three political episodes documented in the magazine (Bahia in 1908, Manaus in 1910, and Rio de Janeiro in 1911), we tried to understand the limits of the Supreme Court during the crisis of the "states politics".
Keywords:
First Republic; Bazilian Supreme Court; political questions; juridical journalism