The Constitution of Mexico: A Contextual Analysis
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This book provides an overview of Mexico's
political evolution since it became independent from Spain in 1821, while also
examining the country's current constitutional arrangements, principles, and
structures. The aim is to explain this evolution as the result of struggles
between the interests and ideologies of different groups within Mexican society,
each with a different political vision of how the country should be organized.
The book begins with a review of Mexico's constitutional trajectory, and
explains why democracy, republicanism, federalism, separation of state and
church, protection of fundamental rights, and the Nation's ownership of mineral
resources first became constitutional principles. It then deals respectively
with democracy and the electoral system, as well as the branches of federal
government - the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Further, the book
introduces the institutional structure of Mexico's federal system; discusses the
rules, principles, and institutions for the protection of human rights; and
examines the constitutional regime of Mexico's economy. The conclusion explains
how a series of factors has combined to produce a gap between the formal
Constitution and what can be seen as the living Constitution; bridging that gap
presents Mexican politics and society with one of its great contemporary
challenges. (Series: Constitutional Systems of the World)
