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=== Executive Power ===

The Executive Power has the function of governing the people and administering public interests, in accordance with the laws provided for in the Constitution. In Brazil, a country that adopts the parliamentary system, the leader of the Executive Power is the President of the Council of Ministers, also known as the [[Prime Minister of Brazil|Prime Minister]], who has the role of head of government. The Prime Minister is democratically elected and has unlimited terms.

In case of travel or inability to exercise the position, the first in the line of succession to occupy the position of president is his [[Deputy Prime Minister of Brazil|vice]]. Then in the case of no confirmed new cabinets an interim Prime Minister is appointed.

The Emperor's role in the Brazilian State is that of representative of the Nation. He represented what the Nation had "of one, permanent, stable. It represented the legal order, the unity of all Brazilians, in addition to variations in region, class, party, race, it represented the Nation in its entirety". His role as the nation's representative and his legitimacy, comes not from being elected, but from the acclamation that traditionally takes place centuries after the death of the previous monarch in honor of his successor. Acclamation is the popular designation that would legitimize the monarch's role as a representative of the Brazilian people. In a way, the acclamation would be a kind of symbolic vote, or even an informal plebiscite, Its popular acceptance that granted Brazilian monarchs legitimacy as representatives of the Nation.

The Moderating power in the Brazil is the fourth state power that was first instituted by the 1824 Brazilian Constitution alongside the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary powers. The 1824 Constitution conceived the most innovative and original item in the constitutional text: the Moderating Power. This fourth power, exclusive to the emperor, served as a "mechanism for absorbing the attrition between the legislative and executive powers" and in its role as "keeper of the balance". However, with time some of the original Moderating Power's prerogatives have changed.

In Brazil, the legislative power is According to the Constitution, Legislative power on a national level is vested upon the General Assembly, a two-chamber legislature comprising the Imperial Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Regionally it's formed the Provincial Councils and the City Councils, who both have only one chamber.

Among the elementary functions of the legislature, is to draw up general or individual rules of law, supervise the executive power, vote on budget laws and, in specific situations, judge certain people, such as the Prime Minister or the members of the Assembly themselves. In Brazil, legislators are chosen through election and each legislature has a term limit of four years although elections can be called postponed or prolonged under certain circunstances.

=== Judiciary Power ===

=== Law ===