First Mexican Republic

Mexican Republic
República Mexicana
1823–1835
Motto: Religión, Independencia, Unión
Religion, Independence, Union
Mexico in 1830
Mexico in 1830
CapitalMexico City
Common languagesSpanish (official), Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, Mixtecan languages, Zapotec languages
Religion
Roman Catholicism (official religion)
GovernmentFederal presidential republic
President 
• 1824–1829
Guadalupe Victoria (first)
• 1835
Miguel Barragán (last)
Vice President 
• 1824–1827
Nicolás Bravo
• 1829–1832
Anastasio Bustamante
• 1833–1835
Valentín Gómez Farías
LegislatureCongress
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
History 
• Republic established
1 November 1823
4 October 1824
23 October 1835
Population
• 1824[1]
6,500,000
• 1834[1]
7,734,292
CurrencyMexican real
ISO 3166 codeMX
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Provisional Government of Mexico
Centralist Republic of Mexico
Today part ofMexico
United States

The First Mexican Republic, known also as the First Federal Republic (Spanish: Primera República Federal), existed from 1824 to 1835. It was a federated republic, established by the Constitution of 1824, the first constitution of independent Mexico, and officially designated the United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos, listen).[2][3][4] It ended in 1835, when conservatives under Antonio López de Santa Anna transformed it into a unitary state, the Centralist Republic of Mexico.

The republic was proclaimed on November 1, 1823[5] by the Supreme Executive Power, months after the fall of the Mexican Empire ruled emperor Agustin I, a former royalist military officer-turned-insurgent for independence. The federation was formally and legally established on October 4, 1824, when the Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States came into force.[6]

The First Republic was plagued through its entire twelve-year existence by severe financial and political instability. Political controversies, ever since the drafting of the constitution tended to center around whether Mexico should be a federal or a centralist state, with wider liberal and conservative causes attaching themselves to each faction respectively. With the exception of the inaugural office holder, Guadalupe Victoria, every single administration during the First Republic was overthrown by military coup d'état.

The First Republic would finally collapse after the overthrow of the liberal president Valentín Gómez Farías, through a rebellion led by his former vice-president, General Antonio López de Santa Anna who had switched sides. Once in power, the conservatives, who had long been critical of the federal system and blamed it for the nation's instability, repealed the Constitution of 1824 on October 23, 1835, and the Federal Republic became a unitary state, the Centralist Republic. The unitary regime was formally established on December 30, 1836, with the enactment of the seven constitutional laws.[7]

  1. ^ a b Evolución de la Población de México durante los años de 1521 al 2000
  2. ^ Romo, Rafael (November 23, 2012). "After nearly 200 years, Mexico may make the name official". CNN.
  3. ^ "About Mexico". Embajada de Mexico en Estados Unidos (Mexican Embassy in the United States). December 3, 2012. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  4. ^ "Official name of the country". Presidency of Mexico. March 31, 2005. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
  5. ^ "Acta Constitutiva de la Nación Mexicana". 500 años de México en documentos. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  6. ^ "Decreto. Constitución federal de los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos". 500 años de México en documentos. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  7. ^ "Se transita del federalismo al centralismo mediante las Bases de Reorganización de la Nación Mexicana". 500 años de México en documentos. Retrieved January 24, 2016.

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