The Federal Supreme Court and the citizenship in the light of the communitarism influence

Abstract

The 1988 Constitution conferred to the Supreme Court an institutional design that reflects a valorization of the constitutional text and an effort to bring it near to a citizenship practice due to a participative democracy movement, in the light of the of the communitarian philosophical-political theory . However, it is possible to see elements that unloose an identity crisis on the activities done by the supreme.  This identity crisis is sharpened by the institute of the AMICUS CURIAE, questioning the role as a constitutional tribunal itself