Carta Constitucional da Monarchia Portugueza decretada e dada pelo Rei de Portugal e Algarves D. Pedro IV Imperador do Brazil aos 29 de Abril de 1826 e acto addicional.

Lisbon, Typ.—Largo dos Inglezinhos, 27, 1.º, 1879.. 8°, stitched; self covers. Short teat at upper inner corner of title page. Otherwise in very good condition. 56 pp. *** Later edition, with Acto Addicional of 1852, of the second Portuguese constitution, a fundamental constitutional text for nineteenth-century Portugal, and one of the starting points of nineteenth-century Portuguese history, written and promulagated in Rio de Janeiro in 1826 by D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, in his capacity as D. Pedro IV, King of Portugal. He then abdicated in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II. Sir Charles Stuart, Lord Stuart d'Rothsey, was charged with bringing the 1826 Charter from Brazil to Portugal in the year of its promulagation. Abrogated by D. Miguel in 1828, it was put back into force after the victory of the liberals under D. Pedro in August 1834, remaining the supreme law of the land until September 10, 1836. Closely resembling the 1824 Brazilian constitution, also in large part written by D. Pedro, it was the rallying point of the liberal cause which eventually resulted in the triumph of D. Pedro over his brother, the absolutist D. Miguel, bringing D. Pedro's daughter to the Portuguese throne as D. Maria II. Finally, under Costa Cabral, it was re-instituted on February 10, 1842, and remained the Portuguese constitution up to the fall of the monarchy in 1910. Though liberal in its day, it was more conservative than the first Portuguese constitution of 1822 or the third Portuguese constitution of 1838.We know of no bibliography which accurately distinguishes the many editions of this fundamental work.*** Not in Innocêncio; see II, 38; and IX, 47–8 for other editions. This edition not located in Porbase, Jisc or KVK (51 databases searched).