Mexican Revolution Constitution

MEXICAN REVOLUTION CONSTITUTION 1917 CONSTITUTIONALISTS SUPPORTED MADERO, SOLDIERS AND LABOR LEADERS, LOCAL LEADERS CARRANZA EMERGED AS “FIRST CHIEF” – FAVORED THE RESTORATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT CALLED FOR A ‘CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION’ IN 1916 POLITICAL CONSOLIDATION WITH LEGITIMACY – REORDER OF MEXICAN SOCIETY NEW CONSTITUTION AND ELECTIONS ELECTIONS HELD FOR DELEGATES TO WRITE THE NEW DRAFT MET IN QUERETARO – DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1, 1917 CONVENTION DELEGATES REFLECTED DIVERSITY GOAL: REVERSE THE PRECEDENT OF ‘INDIVIDUAL INTERESTS’ OVER THOSE OF THE STATE (NATION) REITERATE BASIC ‘PRINCIPLES’ OF LIBERAL CONSTITUTION OF 1857 SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE RESTRICT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SECULAR EDUCATION AND REGULATION OF ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS ARTICLE 130 – MARRIAGE – CIVIL CEREMONY CHURCH – NO CRITIQUES OF THE GOVERNMENT SET THE NUMBER OF PRIESTS WITHIN JURISDICTIONS RESIDENT CLERGY – ONLY NATIVE MEXICANS ARTICLE 27 DEALT WITH PROPERTY RIGHTS LAND REFORM – EARLY PUBLICATION [1915] RETURN LAND TO PEASANTS – UNJUSTLY TAKEN AWAY FROM INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ALLOWED STATE TO INTERVINE PRIVATE PROPERTY (LAND FROM LARGE HACIENDAS) TO PROVIDE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC STATE HAD POWER TO MAINTAIN OWNERSHIP OF SUBSOIL RIGHTS AND PROTECT NATIONAL PATRIMONY MINERAL AND OIL RESERVES – MAIN SOURCE OF WEALTH ARTICLE 123 FOLLOWED CARRANZA’S 1915 LABOR CODE STATE HAD RIGHT TO INTERVE ON WORKER’S BEHALF SANITARY CONDITIONS ONE DAY OF REST PER WEEK

JUST WAGE – PAID IN CURRENCY RESTRICTED WORK OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN WORKERS’ COMPENSATION PAID VACATION NEGOTIATION OF LABOR DISPUTES RIGHTS TO JOIN A UNION RIGHTS TO STRIKE (WITHOUT VIOLENCE) CONDEMNATION OF DEBT PEONAGE CANCELLATION OF DEBTS