O ESTADO LAICO E A INFLUÊNCIA DA RELIGIÃO NOS PODERES JUDICIÁRIO E LEGISLATIVO

Abstract

Brazil had your building as a country marked by the presence of Catholic tradition in your midst, being molded by religious conceptions, having a strong historic connection between State and religion. Currently, the Federal Constitution of 1988 enshrinesthe non-involvement of the State with religion from your article 19, I, being regardas a secular country, wherefore, the work presented here aims to examine the influence of religion in this secular State. In order to try to elucidate the proposed theme, first it is detailed the contents about the historic of Brazil, making an overview about the evolution of the involvement existing between State and church, bringing, also, the several constitutions of the country, with the intent to check how they positioned about the presence of religion in the public sphere. To state that Brazil is a secular country, is something that constantly you seebroadcaston national media, especially when are subjects with big repercussion, involving of contents connected to the moral, the values, the customs are discussed, and the religion intervenes in order to enforce their sacred conception. Publiclythe country is called secular to try to silence the religious voices that echo in the public scenario, with statements that, by being a secular State, the religions couldn’t influence in the public interest discussions. Then, the purpose is to try define the secular term, making a differentiation of others concepts that with them get confused, showing an overview of the secularism on brazil, which model is followed by the country, therefore, to attend how the influence of the religions affect the Legislative Power andJudiciary, making a contrast between the two and analyzing the attitude of public officials on this religious intervention, in order to reach a conclusion about the viability or not this interference before the current constitutional provision of secular state.