THE SUBSISTENCE OF MILITARY JURISDICTION IN THE FIRST REPUBLIC

Abstract

The subsistence of military jurisdiction in the Federal Constitution of 1824 has its origin in the validity of the Reales Ordenanzas para el Régimen, Disciplina, Subordinación y Servicio de sus Exércitos sanctioned on October 22nd, 1768, in San Lorenzo. Due to the constitutional texts: (i) Constitución de Cádiz, 1812; (ii) Constitución de Apatzingán, 1814; (iii) Plan de Iguala, 1821; (iv) Tratados de Córdoba, 1821; and, (v) the Reglamento Provisional del Imperio Mexicano, 1822, are coincident in establishing that the military jurisdiction «subsists» and, as a consequence, the regulations that underpin it. This situation finds its cause in different reasons, which include the conservation of the military elites privileges, having the support of the Armed Forces for the power consolidation and the intention of the respective constituents to grant validity to the novohispana norm waiting to issue new Mexican laws.