Abstract
Between 1930 and 1945, especially during the Estado Novo regime, authoritarian political thought seemed to completely dominate the horizon of Brazilian politics. Nevertheless, different understandings of political life, bearing more democratic characteristics, were not totally absent during the period. The present paper aims to investigate and to deepen the knowledge of the notions of democracy as they were devised by a group of jurists from the state of Bahia, by exploring the extensive intellectual production left by them in two academic journals of the time: Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Bahia, published by Bahia Law School, and Revista Fórum, published by Instituto dos Advogados da Bahia, a local association of lawyers.
Keywords:
Democracy; 1930s and 1940s; Jurists; Academic journals