Claim

Claim 849

The Fifth Institutional Act let the president recess the national Congress, state assemblies and municipal chambers, intervene in states and municipalities without constitutional restraint, and suspend any citizen's political rights for ten years.

Published 2026-09-26. Last reviewed 2026-09-26. 1 source.

Statement: The Fifth Institutional Act let the president recess the national Congress, state assemblies and municipal chambers, intervene in states and municipalities without constitutional restraint, and suspend any citizen's political rights for ten years.
Field: scope_of_action
Value: Powers granted by AI-5
About: incident 1968-brazil-institutional-act-five-press-controls
Source: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXI, Document 236
Publisher: Office of the Historian, United States Department of State
Method: primary document
Checked: 2026-09-26
Confidence: high
Status: current
Source date: 1968-12-14

Quotation from the source

The act allowed the President to recess the congress, state assemblies, and municipal chambers; to intervene in the states and municipalities without constitutional restraint; to suspend the political rights of any citizen for ten years