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Benjamin Constant do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

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Municipality

The municipality of Benjamin Constant do Sul (2,307 inhabitants, 13,199 ha) is located 400 km north-west of Porto Alegre.

Benjamin Constant do Sul was established in 1927 by Ricardo Ducatti. Most colonists came from Guaporé, Bento Gonçalves, Caxias do Sul and other towns of the Serra Gaúcha.
The district of Benjamin Constant do Sul was established within São Valentim in 1959. The municipality of Benjamin Constant do Sul was established by State Law No. 10,645 promulgated on 29 December 1995.

https://www.benjaminconstantdosul.rs.gov.br/
Municipal website.

The municipality is named for the engineer and politician Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magajhães (1836-1891).
Benjamin Constant entered the Military College in Rio de Janeiro in 1852. As a professor of mathematics, he was introduced in 1857 to scientific positivism by the "Traité de géométrie analytique" and the first volumes of the "Cours de philosophie positive" published by the French philosopher Auguste Comte. In 1867, he campaigned for Comte's Religion of Humanity. Constant was among the founders of the Rio de Janeiro Postivist Society on 1 April 1876, which he left in December 1881.
In 1887, Constant, member of the Military Club, asked the club's president, General Deodoro de Fonseca, to publicly supported the abolition of slavery. This resulted in a petition to Princess Isabel asking the armed forces not to be commissioned to capture fleeing slaves.
In spite of being an "unfaithful and incomplete" positivist, Constant efficiently contributed to the positivist transition from the Empire to the Republic in 1889. He understood that the military uprising, aimed at overthrowing the decadent Imperial regime, was in search of an ideological support. Accordingly, the Republic of the United States of Brazil was pacifically proclaimed on 15 November 1889. Constant was appointed Minister of War by Deodoro de Fonseca, head of the provisory government.

https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/roman_0048-8593_1979_num_9_23_5253.pdf
Paul Arbousse-Bastide. 1979. Sur le positivisme politique et religieux au Brésil. Romantisme 23, 79-97
Ivan Sache
, 12 July 2020


Symbols

The flag of Benjamin Constant do Sul is vertically divided red-white-green with the municipal coat of arms in the center.

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Ivan Sache, 12 July 2020