Afonso Celso Junior: A young conservative republican

Abstract

Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo Junior was a rising politician at the end of the Second Reign and recognized as an intellectual in the First Republic. He was a militant in the republican movement and, even elected deputy for the Liberal Party, remained apologist of the Republic during the Monarchy. Through his trajectory of Republican militant to the imperial deputy, the present article has like proposal to analyze the conception of Republic defended by the young Afonso Celso Junior in his speech of debut like parliamentarian. This occurred in the first Chamber of Deputies elected by direct vote in Brazil, a result of the Saraiva Law (1881), a scenario of expectations of political renewal that did not materialize.