Legislative Process and Technique: Constitutional Foundations

Target Audience

City councilors, legal assistants, and advisors of the Legislative Power and Parliamentarians (staff of parliamentary offices); Prosecutors, legal assistants, and advisors of the Executive Power; Legal professionals. It is also open to the general community.

Justification

The process of creating laws is governed by a complex and detailed set of legal norms, which originates from the Constitution and binds the actions of the legislator at the state and municipal levels. Therefore, legislative actions in municipalities must respect a broad set of rules that begins with the constitutional text, followed by federal laws (as a parameter) and decisions from constitutional jurisdiction: from the Supreme Federal Court, which establishes the interpretation of such rules.

General Objective

To understand the constitutional guidelines of the legislative process and general aspects of the drafting technique for bills.

Specific Objectives

• To understand the constitutional guidelines related to the drafting of legal norms: foundations of constitutionality and legislative process;
• To know the basic components and their functions in a bill;
• To identify the parts and basic units of the law and their respective functions;
• To develop, based on federal guidelines, skills in the technique of drafting legal norms;

Syllabus

[dropdown-title] Module 1 - Constitutional Foundations of the Legislative Process: Legislative Process: formal and material constitutionality; competencies; amendments to the constitution and other norms. [/dropdown-title]

[dropdown-title] Module 2 - Foundations of Legislative Technique: Legislative Technique: technical drafting; structure and division of legal texts; components of a bill: proposition, explanatory memorandum, and justification of the proposition. [/dropdown-title]

[dropdown-title] Module 3 - Practice in Drafting a Bill. [/dropdown-title]