ELECTORAL JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY
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Way to redemocratization - On the way to redemocratization, with the Electoral Justice already reinstituted, President Eurico Gaspar Dutra took office and the National Constituent Assembly of 1945 was elected.

After the Constitution was promulgated on September 18th, 1946, the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate began to operate as ordinary Legislative Power.

Like the Constitution of 1934, the new one confirmed the Electoral Justice among the branches of the Judicial Power and prohibited candidates from running in more than one state.

Bringing the political parties' exclusive prerogative of presenting candidates as its great innovation, the Electoral Code of 1945 remained in force, with few changes, until the advent of the Electoral Code of 1950.