Legislação Portuguesa para o Ultramar

Abstract

Portuguese colonials overseas laws were based on three fundamental principles: “the speciality”, “urgency” and “the respect of indigenous traditions and costums”, these principles were estabilished by the “Acto Adicional” to the Cart Constitutional Portugese(1852). Given these principles were published many laws, which regulated the conduct of the african indigens and withdraw their citizenship rigths. We concluded taht these principles along the universal principle of “civilizing misión” justify the creations of a special treatment for indigenous people in