Good News In History, October 4

Good News In History, October 4
Good News In History, October 4 200 years ago today, a new federalist constitution was signed inaugurating the First Mexican Republic. A drafting committee consisting of several representative figures led by Miguel Ramos Arizpe finished the document quickly because it was based on the shared Hispanic political theory and practice that Mexicans, the former novohispanos , knew well, since they had played a significant role in shaping it. The main challenge for these men was the definition and placement of sovereignty—where it lay and where were its boundaries. READ a bit more on this momentous day…  (1824) The Mexican constitution of 1824 – credit Isaacvp, CC 4.0. Article 3 of the Mexican Acta Constitutiva read: “Sovereignty resides radically and essentially in the nation and, therefore, it [the nation] possesses the exclusive right to adopt by means of its representatives the form of government and other fundamental laws that seem most convenient for its conservation and greater prosperity”…