Abstract
The article discusses the thirty years of the Federal Constitution of 1988 under the perspective of the change to be operated, and obstacles against such transformations in both the intellectual debate and in the role of the Judiciary, especially the Federal Supreme Court. Depleted in its original sense of its developmental character, directive and guarantor, by American and European theoretical conceptions assimilated in Brazil, the Constitution remained incapable of proving itself an instrument against the coup of 2016 and its economic and political consequences.
Keywords:
Federal Constitution; Judiciary; Coup of 2016