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,...
This book provides an overview of Mexico's political evolution since it became independent from Spain in 1821, while also examining the country's curr...