Corro, José Justo: Ortiz Monasterio, José Maria:

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PRIMERA SECRETARIA DE ESTADO. DEPARTMENTO DEL EXTERIOR....1. EL TERRITORIO MEXICANO SE DIVIDE EN TANTOS DEPARTAMENTOS CUANTOS ERAN LOS ESTADOS, CON LA VARIACIONES SIGUIENTES...[caption title and ... A scarce and important decree from Mexican President José Justo Corro promulgating one of the "Siete Leyes," a group of laws that essentially rewrote the Mexican constitution of 1824 and converted the country from a Federal to a Centralist Republic.Corro became President shortly after Santa Anna resigned to fight the rebellion in Texas, after the immediate successor, Barragán, died of typhus. In his one-year term, the highly religious Corro slowly lost nearly all of his political support through a series of economic and military failures, although he did manage to earn the Pope's recognition of Mexican independence. His most significant undertaking, however, was the institution of the "Siete Leyes," which in essence rewrote the entire Mexican constitution. The laws established literacy and property requirements for the vote, gave the President considerable powers over Congress and the courts, reorganized legislative and judicial branches, and, perhaps most importantly, changed Mexico's semi-sovereign states into "departments" whose governments were appointed by the President. The overall effect of these laws was to dramatically increase the power of the President, and ultimately consolidate much of the administrative strength of the "republic" into a single man (i.e. Santa Anna).

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