Breathe
By Lillian Briseño
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution of 1824, and today, February 5, 2024, the 167th anniversary of the Magna Carta of 1857 and 107th anniversary of the Constitution that has guided the country's destiny since 1917. And despite the many modifications it has undergone since its promulgation, the current Constitution nevertheless preserves the principles that have shaped Mexico throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century.
The social reforms of the 17th reached the peasants and workers; education, making it compulsory; the nation, endorsing sovereignty over the territory; democracy, through non-reelection and the creation of the free municipality; secularization, subscribing to the separation of church and state.
Like its predecessors, it was signed when the country was still immersed in a civil war that would not end completely despite its enactment. It would be years before Mexico could put an end to the last manifestations of the revolutionary movement, even though some of its expressions remained standing for several years, as in the case of Zapatismo in Morelos.
