Science, Technology and Politics in the First Republic (1910-1926) - Portal do Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão - Portugal

Conference Cycle 2024:  Science, Technology and Politics in the First Republic (1910-1926)

Bernardino Machado Museum - 19h00

Free entry

The Bernardino Machado Museum is holding its 2024 Cycle of Conferences from 26 January. With the theme "Science, Technology and Politics in the First Republic (1910-1926)", the event takes place in person at 19h00 at the Bernardino Machado Museum.

"Oliveira Marques said that the First Republic ended up being a 'rehashed replica' of the extinct Monarchy. He knew that it wasn't, and he just wanted to emphasise, with the analogy, that it fell far short of the expectations of the "historical republicans" and their republican-socialist allies, converging more than diverging - as far as the essentials were concerned - with the deposed monarchist regime. Despite the "effect" of his authoritative statement, it is far from an accurate analogy: the Republic did away with hereditary privileges (starting with the royal ones), separated the State from the Churches, secularised the legal personality of the State and its institutions, sought to ensure the separation and autonomy of the executive, judicial and legislative powers, ensured that the Legislative Power was representative of the popular will through elections and had a democratic ascendancy over the Executive (through the adoption of "parliamentarism") and took various important social measures: assistance and workers' rights (such as the right to strike, working hours, insurance for accidents at work and illness, tenancy law, etc. )."