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The primary objective of this paper, one of the products derived from the author's doctoral thesis, is to indicate how the current Brazilian Constitution innovates to define cultural heritage and establish measures for its preservation. With this purpose, the author makes a genealogy of the so-called "Cartas Políticas" of Brazil, which addressed heritage issues. Without examining the process that led to their formation in depth, this paper aims to demonstrate how the current Constitution extends the concept of heritage, albeit with some limitations, such as the naturalization of cultural diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes possible formulas for the modification or Implementation of the principles and rights of cultural policies regulated in Spanish Constitution. As a starting point, it must be considered the entire previous experience developed in those Autonomies that reformed their "Estatutos", offering possible alternatives of concretion or improvement of the pre-existing regulation. Today these alternatives could be projected on the constitutional text itself, once the circumstances are given to facilitate Its effective reform. On the other hand, other possible improvements could come from the incorporation of principles already entrenched in the cultural policies of the EU, particularly appropriate for political models such as the Spanish case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]