Author:

Felipe Bizinoto

Abstract:

Pressure groups arise from the human need to live collectively. Within a political regime (especially a democratic one), they play the fundamental role of representing interests before public bodies, particularly the legislative and executive branches. This action (act or activity) constitutes lobbying, which deserves further study in Brazil from the perspective of the 1988 Constitution. Furthermore, as in Italy, Brazil deserves studies that identify the constitutionality of pressure groups, understood here as lobbying. What constitutes a pressure group, its difference from interest groups, the derivation of pressure into lobbying (in a legal-professional concept), and the constitutional foundations found in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution are the subjects of this article, which will address the topic of pressure groups through qualitative analysis, with literary and documentary references, exploring the existing situation mainly in Brazilian legal doctrine.