PSCI 1100 Study Guide - History Of Somalia, Authoritarianism, Mexican Revolution

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 1100
• Professor: all

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And the role of ideologies in its evolution. The current mexican constitution was created in 1917 and includes several fundamental principles recurring from the country"s previous constitutions as well as its history. The most important conflict present throughout the history of mexico"s constitutions was between two ideologies: conservative and liberal. This essay will examine the active role and presence of both in the history of the country, and their importance in the development of the modern mexican constitution. Mexico had been a spanish colony and was dominated by elites for over 300 years. 1. Before the constitution period, it was known as new spain. It included among others an evident social class division, a mixed racial state, a centralized state institution and roman catholicism was known as an arm of the state. As liberalism spread through spain, the conservative elites of. Mexico demanded the preservation of monarchy, rejecting change.