Department of Law and Public Administration, Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research (IDP), Brasília, Federal District, Brazil.
PLoS One. 2021 Nov 1;16(11):e0259461. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259461. eCollection 2021.
This article aims to identify networks of constitutional text structured in an imperceptible way. Constitutions has the power to reveal how its devices "dialogue" with each other, forming their own communicative communities. With the help from the network analysis methodology, an interpretative model of textual mapping is proposed based on internal references between the provisions of one Constitution. We use the Brazilian Constitution, whose text is very detailed, analytical and deals with various issues. As a result, a network was identified that included 174 connections between 95 articles of the Constitution and the existence of normative communities that share codes or communicative standards. The study demonstrates the strong possibility to found structuring axis of this communities and relates to the other issues that have reached constitutional stature, showing that the complexity of some Constitutions can be observed beyond its logical sequential structure.
本文旨在识别以一种不易察觉的方式构建的宪法文本网络。宪法具有揭示其装置如何相互“对话”，形成自己的交际共同体的能力。借助网络分析方法，本文提出了一种基于一国宪法内部条款之间相互参照的文本映射解释模型。我们使用了巴西宪法，其文本非常详细、分析性强，涉及各种问题。结果，确定了一个网络，其中包括宪法 95 条中的 174 个连接，以及存在共享规范或交际标准的规范性共同体。该研究表明，存在构建这些共同体的结构轴的可能性，并与其他达到宪法地位的问题相关联，表明一些宪法的复杂性可以从其逻辑顺序结构之外进行观察。
