This article discusses the relationship between the Brazilian Military Justice and the political process as constitutive element of the Republican order after 1889. It analyzes the continuity of monarchical institutions in the Military Justice. It also points out doctrinal and organizational mechanisms that enabled the political exploitation of the Military Justice under Deodoro da Fonseca's and Floriano Peixoto's administrations.
Military Justice; justice of exception; military law; establishment of the Republic; military and politics.