United States of Mexico Federal Constitution of 1857

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Title of the Federal Constitution of the United States of Mexico from 1857, written from 1856 to 1857, Original: Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones . It replaced the constitution adopted by the Congreso Constituyente de México in 1821 and 1824.

The Federal Constitution of the United States of Mexico of 1857 was a liberal constitution for Mexico .

Emergence

The constitution was drawn up by a constitutional convention in 1857 during the presidency of Ignacio Comonfort . The convention was sworn in on February 5, 1857.

content

The constitution establishes the individual rights of Mexican citizens, freedom of expression , freedom of assembly and freedom to carry arms. It reaffirmed the abolition of slavery , criminal imprisonment , cruel sentences, torture , largely the death penalty and internal tariffs . It banned titles of nobility , monopolies and hereditary offices and was thus directed against a common practice of part of the oligarchy to enforce hereditary rights from the feudal system of the colonial era as well as against the system of ejido , which inhibited the trade in real estate.

Some provisions were directed against the interests of the Roman Catholic Church , such as the principle of secularism . The church monopoly on education was abolished, as was the case law under canon law in commercial law .

The Senate was abolished and a unicameral parliament was introduced.

opponent

The opposition to the liberal constitution was formed in the conservative party.

The conflict over the constitution polarized Mexican society and was violent in the Guerra de Reforma and the second French intervention between liberals and conservatives.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dante Haro Reyes: The role of the second chambers in federal states: A comparative study using the example of Germany, the United States of America and the United Mexican States, 2003, ISBN 3-86504-018-7 , page 69, online
  2. ↑ http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/35716152323148053754491/index.htm

References

  1. ^ Es : Guerra de Reforma