Constitution and tyranny: Emilio Rabasa and the Querétaro Magna Carta of 1917

This article presents and analyses Emilio Rabasa’s –one of the best acknowledged jurists of late 19th Century and early 20th,due either to admiration or to the controversies aroused by his writings– position vis-à-vis the Constitution of 1917. Specifically, thanks to an exhaustive research in primar...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Aguilar Rivera, José Antonio
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2017
Country:México
Institution:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repository:Historia Mexicana
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/3383
Online Access:https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/3383
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Mexico
Constitution of 1917
tyranny
Emilio Rabasa
1917 Magna Carta of Querétaro
20th Century
México
Constitución de 1917
tiranía
carta de Querétaro de 1917
siglo XX
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Summary:This article presents and analyses Emilio Rabasa’s –one of the best acknowledged jurists of late 19th Century and early 20th,due either to admiration or to the controversies aroused by his writings– position vis-à-vis the Constitution of 1917. Specifically, thanks to an exhaustive research in primary sources, a manuscript, up till then considered missing, was found. In it, Rabasa poses a legal analysis of Article 27 of the Constitution. The importance of this piece lies in the fact that it reveals the Mexican jurist’s attitude, characterised as evasive, towards the revolutionary Magna Carta. With the disclosure of this unprecedented document, I intend to improve understanding of the property rights issue in post-revolutionary Mexico.