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Liberty in Mexico
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This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.
The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as a design element in Liberty Fund books is the earliest-known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
Translations, introduction, editorial additions, and index © 2012 by Liberty Fund, Inc.
“La tradición liberal” (The Liberal Tradition), “La literatura y el estado” (Literature and the State), and “Poesía, mito, revolución” (Poetry, Myth, Revolution) are © Octavio Paz and are translated and reprinted here by permission of Marie Tramini de Paz.
Cover art: Ceremony in Which Santa Anna Knights Manuel Lebrija to the New Order of Guadalupe, by Edouard Pingret, CONACULTA-INAH-MEX. Reproduction authorized by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City.
This eBook edition published in 2013.
eBook ISBN: E-PUB 978-1-61487-256-6
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Contents
| Introduction: Liberty and Liberalism in Mexico / ix | ||
| by José Antonio Aguilar Rivera | ||
| Acknowledgments / xxxi | ||
| 1 | The Founding and Early Constitutional Experiments: 1821–1840 | |
| JOSÉ MARÍA LUIS MORA / 3 | ||
| 1 | Discourse on the Independence of the Mexican Empire / 5 | |
| 2 | Discourse on the Limits of Civil Authority Deduced from Their Source / 17 | |
| 3 | Discourse on the Freedom of Thought, Speech, and Writing / 23 | |
| 4 | Discourse on the Means Ambition Uses to Destroy Liberty / 32 | |
| 5 | Discourse on the Civil Liberties of the Citizen / 40 | |
| 6 | Discourse on Laws That Attack Individual Security / 50 | |
| 7 | Discourse on the Independence of Judicial Power / 60 | |
| 8 | Discourse on Public Opinion and the General Will / 68 | |
| 9 | Discourse on the Nature of Factions / 88 | |
| LORENZO DE ZAVALA / 100 | ||
| 1 | Introduction to Historical Essay on the Mexican Revolutions from 1808 to 1830 / 102 | |
| 2 | Conclusion to Historical Essay on the Revolutions of Mexico from 1808 to 1830 / 115 | |
| 3 | Intervention Regarding the Independence of the Province of Guatemala / 134 | |
| VALENTÍN GÓMEZ FARÍAS / 137 | ||
| Individual Vote of Mr. Gómez Farías on the Issue of the Advisability of Convening a New Congress / 138 | ||
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| LUCAS ALAMÁN / 150 | ||
| Impartial Examination of the Administration of General Vice President Don Anastasio Bustamante / 151 | ||
| 2 | Liberty in the Liberal Republic: 1845–1876 | |
| POLEMIC BETWEEN EL UNIVERSAL, EL SIGLO XIX, AND EL MONITOR REPUBLICANO, 1848–1849 [anonymous] / 181 | ||
| 1 | What Might Be the Causes of Our Ills, Part 1 / 183 | |
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