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Party of the Empire of Brazil known as the Luzias. It defended provincial autonomy, limits on the Moderating Power, parliamentarism, free trade and press, European immigration and gradual abolition, with property-based suffrage.
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Leans further toward federal than 97% of the 177 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
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Republican tradition that idealizes the small landowning farmer as the basis of civic virtue and liberty, advocating wide distribution of land, limited and decentralized government, and distrust of banks, public debt, industry and large cities.
Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
A system in which citizens decide laws directly through referendums, popular initiatives, assemblies and recall of officials, instead of delegating to representatives, as in the Swiss cantons and classical Athens.
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Techno-SocialismRadical Left29%
A French liberal thinker, Tocqueville studied American democracy and championed civil associations, decentralization, and political freedom as antidotes to the tyranny of the majority and the administrative centralization of the modern state.
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Branch of the Brazilian imperial dynasty descended from Pedro II, it maintains claimants to the throne and advocates parliamentary monarchy in Brazil, with a tradition of ties to the Catholic Church.
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