O Ministério Público e a defesa dos direitos sociais

Abstract

This dissertation has the objective to analyse the possibility to bring a action for a judgment about social rights and the mission of Public Prosecutor s Office in this defense. The subject has great importance in a unfair country as Brazil that, gradually, realizes that the concentration of income and assets generate, throughout the time, in reason of the extreme poverty of significant parcels of the population, social problems that prevent the country surpasses the underdevelopment. Fulfills the development of constitutional law as regards social rights forecast and conclude that the current Constitution has advanced on this area. Indispensable to establish enough theoretical bases so that the social rights in de Federal Constitution are not, only, words without meaning. In the current stage of brazilian laws and brazilian institutions, it is examined the possibility that these rights are enforced by the Government. This is the purpose of this work, with special focus in the Public Prosecutor s Office, an institution that has been dedicating to fulfill its constitutional role. Social rights are considered fundamental rights, like rights of freedom. It is examined, too, the costs of these rights and the limits that are usually placed against judicial protection: the principle of separation of powers, the administrative discretion and the theory of the reserve of possible. It is examined, also, the instruments provided by the legal system so that Prosecutor s Office may seek judicial protection. Finally, this dissertation has the objective to demonstrate the possibility of judicial protection of these rights, even if they are in the Constitution as institutional guarantees or program standards