Title: La Reforma - Wikipedia
Headings: La Reforma
La Reforma
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Definition of the liberal reform era
Reforms
Main article: Reform laws
Notable liberal leaders
Liberal Presidents of Mexico
Other notable figures
Paseo de la Reforma
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Content: The Constitutionalists, the winning faction of the Mexican Revolution, fought in the name of the liberal Constitution of 1857. Reforms
Main article: Reform laws
The law prohibiting the ownership of land by corporations, the Lerdo Law, targeted the holdings of the Catholic Church and indigenous communities - confiscating Church land. Indigenous community lands were held by the community as a whole, not as individual parcels. Liberals sought to create a class of yeoman farmers that held land individually. No class of individualistic peasants developed with the Liberal program emerged, but many merchants acquired land as well as some tenant farmers. Many existing landowners expanded their holdings at the expense of peasants, and some upwardly mobile ranch owners, often mestizos, acquired land previously held by communities. The most noteworthy reforms of the Reforma were initially promulgated in a series of separate laws. the Ley Lerdo, abolishing corporate property holding by the Catholic Church and indigenous communal properties
the Ley Juárez, abolishing separate military and religious courts
the Ley Iglesias, regulating ecclesiastical fees
the Mexican Constitution of 1857, guaranteeing many civil and political liberties including freedom of religion
the 'Reform Laws' in which the liberal government of Veracruz during the civil war against the conservatives proclaimed complete separation of church and state. Notable liberal leaders
Benito Juárez, a Zapotec Indian who became president of Mexico during the Reform.