The pioneering proposal of a agrarian reform law put forward in the Brazilian Congress in 1947 by Nestor Duarte is studied through an analysis that brings to the fore primary features of the thought of one of the founders of political sociology in Brazil. It is argued that for Nestor Duarte the intervention in the national life aiming at surpassing the private order is necessary but can not be made in an authoritarian way.
Brazil; Nestor Duarte