Mexico's Supreme Court [electronic resource] : between liberal individual rights and revolutionary social rights, 1867-1934 / Timothy M. James.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The judicial protection of constitutional rights during the porfiriato -- From the plan of san luis potosi to the constitution of 1917 -- Liberal jurisprudence and article 123 -- The third revolutionary court and legal obstacles to the implementation of article 27.

"The protection of individual rights was established for the first time in the Mexican constitution of the late nineteenth century and carried over into the 1917 revolutionary constitution. The author's asks, "How did judicial interpretation become a barrier to implementing labor legislation and agrarian land rights?"--Provided by publisher.

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