The dissertation analyses the role of the press during the Brazilian Regency Period (1831-1840), based on the periodical publications Aurora Fluminense and A Torre de Babel, respectively edited by the politically moderate Evaristo Ferreira da Veiga and the Restoration partisan José Ignácio de Abreu e Lima, identifying the political projects that, more than being propagated by said publications, motivated their creation. Additionally, the dissertation focuses on the conceptual matrices handled by said writers: the constitutionalism and the civic humanism. The theme brings to life a link between Imperial Brazil and the rest of the American Continent through liberal institutions and through the attempt to emphasize the contrast with the Old Continent, in spite of the difference in the political regimen. Finally, the dissertation analyses the debate that had just started in the press, present in both publications: the civility in journalism agenda, aimed at creating an horizontal control stance, by demanding the observation of a certain behavior by the journalists, and, simultaneously, focused on clearing the definition of the range of action of public writers, in one side, and the State, in the other.