The Brazilian state enjoys privileges in the judicia l process not available to ordinary citizens. This research contextualizes the foundation of the state s procedural privileges, highlighs their emergence and permanence and seeks forms of justification for such unequal treatment observed within the state-society relationship in the judicial process. This investigation begins with the initial proposal that legal professionals reproduce these forms of justification and that they are present in society because represent ideal types of sovereignty representation. Recognizing the inequality of treatment that the common citizen faces in struggles with the state, and because legal professionals comprise the segment most familiar with existence of these judicial process privileges, this research investigates the varieties of ways they justify such inequality. Lastly, it explores conflicting perceptions, connecting the forms of justification found with differing idealized notions of sovereignty in Brazil.