O STF como legislador positivo : justiça constitucional pela efetividade dos direitos fundamentais

Abstract

This dissertation concerns the role of the STF Supreme Federal Court in regards to controlling the unconstitutional normative omission. It aims to demonstrate that, in this confrontation, the Constitutional Court can and must perform, as it does, a role that is normative in a wide sense and even materially legislative in a strict sense, above all, for the sake of efficiency and effectiveness of the fundamental rights, without incurring offense to the constitutional architecture of functional sharing and distribution of power, neither to democracy. In the first part, based on a critical analysis of the idea of separation of powers, we discuss the insertion of Constitutional Justice in the sharing and distribution of the exercise of the functions of the state, emphasizing its multifunctional aspect. Following that, we focus on the democratic legitimacy of Constitutional Justice, presenting the main substantial, procedural and institutional foundations, which legitimate it to dialogue with the other sovereign institutions. The second part begins by examining the position occupied by the fundamental rights in the Democratic Rule-of-Law State and the unconstitutional omission, in special, the normative one, as a great obstacle to its efficiency and effectiveness. Finally, with analysis of jurisprudence, the thesis specifically focuses on the performance of the STF as the positive legislator in confronting the unconstitutional normative omission, with its assumptions, characteristics and limitations.