O exercício da jurisdição eleitoral pela Justiça Federal, no Distrito Federal, durante a Primeira República

Abstract

The adoption of the federative regime in Brazil also mattered in the option for the jurisdiction duality, with the creation of the ordinance n. 848/1890, of the Federal Court. The Constitution of the Republic from February 1891 kept the same dual system and the installation occurred from February of that same year on, of the Federal Supreme Court- STF and of the judiciary sections. During the forty-six years of it s effective operation, most part of these being into the so-called First Republic (1889-1930). This judiciary structure coexisted with the political system ruled by the colonels and by the governors' politics being affected by them on a higher or lower degree according to the state of the federation.In the case of the federal District, to those external elements one could loom the President of the Republic's own performance as he was interested in keeping the control over the local political system. The nomination of the sectional and substitute judges made up the main form of political intervention on the federal judicial structure. Even so, several attributions in the managent of the elections were being transferred to the Judiciary along the First Republic and in particular the procedure concerning the electoral enlistment. To the Federal Magistrates the judgement of all electoral crimes was entrusted, besides the participation in some stages of the electoral management. In this work I seek to analyse the performance of the Federal Justice in the capital of the Republic, in the exercise of electoral jurisdiction, searching for delimiting the most common types of demand according to the ongoing electoral legislation for each period as well as the result of the processes if these ones had the ability to alter the reality of the political system and if this latter one used to interfere on the judicial decisions which were made on the case files of the analysed processes