The Corporative Chamber was one of the two parliamentary chambers established under the Portuguese Constitution of 1933, the other being the National Assembly. Unlike the directly elected National Assembly, it had a purely consultative, rather than legislative role.

The creation of the Corporative Chamber was part of corporatist philosophy advocated by Salazar and adopted by the Estado Novo. Its function was to represent the various economic, cultural, social, and other corporations.

The Corporative Chamber met in the former Senate chamber of the São Bento Palace

São Bento Palace

The Palácio de São Bento , "Saint Benedict's Palace", is the home of the Assembly of the Republic, the Portuguese parliament. It is located in Lisbon. Close to Bairro Alto, the Palace of São Bento was formerly known as the seat of the National Assembly during the Estado Novo regime...

. It was composed of members elected by the various types of Portuguese corporations

Corporate group

A corporate group is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity through a common source of control. The concept of a group is frequently used in tax law, accounting and company law to attribute the rights and duties of one member of the group to...

, including:

Provinces and Municipalities;
Universities and Schools;
Trade Unions;
Economic Organizations and Employers;
Social Welfare Organizations.

External links

• Latin fascist elites: the Mussolini, Franco, and Salazar regimes, Paul Lewis, 2002
• A history of fascism, 1914-1945, Stanley G. Payne, 1996