The fight against corruption in the context of Imperial Brazil

Resumen

The present work aims to discuss the way to combat corruption during the Brazil-Empire, in a context of dual jurisdiction, in which the bureaucratic rationality of the State gains prominence, in the face of patrimonialist and personalized government conducts. A period in which the demands of the Public Power were submitted to the administrative jurisdiction and criminal matters to the Judiciary. It seeks to compare the concept of the crimes of "bribery and bribery" to the one later defined as corruption. On the one hand, the Moderating Power, on the other, a weakened Judiciary, submitted to account for its activity to the Executive, without irremovability, a scenario that made the mission of condemning a public servant for abuses in the exercise of his function challenging.