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xiii+297 pages with tables, appendices, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering t spine and ILAS lettering to cover in original pictorial jacket. Latin American Monographs, number 33. Institute of Latin American Studies. First edition.In two of the most fateful months of Mexican history, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1916-1917 came to grips with the basic problems of twentieth-century Mexico. They hammered out pragmatic solutions to establish the legal foundations of the Mexican Revolution, the definitive break between old Mexico and the new, the constitutional bases for the socioeconomic changes from 1917 to the present. Honored and obeyed, dishonored and disobeyed, many time amended, the constitution they wrote still serves as the instrument for achieving the national purpose.
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