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Proclaimed the republic, and Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca became the first president of Brazil. On the same day of the following year, the Constituent Assembly was installed, which ended up, with slight adjustments, approving the text of the draft prepared by a commission of five members appointed by the provisional government and whose final version was written by jurist Ruy Barbosa. The Constitution of the Federative Republic of the United States of Brazil was promulgated on February. "Among the most important characteristics of the 1891 text.
The great influence of North American constitutionalism, which can be illustrated with the adoption, in addition to the republican form of government, of presidentialism and the federative form of the State, in addition to the exclusion of elements social aspects of the constitutional catalog of rights and guarantees, through EX Mobile Phone Numbers the institution of judicial control of the constitutionality of laws, also following the American paradigm of diffuse and incidental control and the Federal Supreme Court, founded on February , highlights Ingo Sarlet.

Penal Code of the Republic (1890) Published before the Constitution, the code aimed to consolidate the political and social values of the new regime and enable social control. Highlighting that Brazil was the last country in America to abolish slavery, Lenio Streck points out that, in the year following the proclamation of the Republic, a Penal Code was enacted to persecute former slaves and children of slaves. The Civil Code, in turn, only came years after the change in the form of government. "Of course: in Brazil, the Civil Code is made for those who have, and the Penal Code is made for those who have nothing", points out Streck.
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