ABSTRACT
This article aims to shed light on the composition of Minas Gerais deputies in the Chamber of Deputies elected to the 1st (1826-1829) and 2nd (1830-1833) legislatures of the Brazilian Empire. Assuming that these groups were not a homogeneous set of men chosen by vote, but a locus of political confrontation in constant change, we intend to analyze here how provincial sectors were projected within the political scenario of the Court during the First Reign. When verifying the assembly of these benches came from a confluence of elements - diverse understandings about representation and organization of the State, electoral and institutional issues, provincial and interprovincial alliances, disputes between opposing groups, conflicts involving business prospects, market and occupation of spaces in the public administration - the article proposes, at the same time, to emphasize the multifaceted character of these political groupings and to question the idea of indifferent “elites provinciais”, conflicting only in the contest for positions and power.
Keywords
Minas Gerais; First Reign; Chamber of Deputies