Title: First Mexican Republic - Wikipedia
Headings: First Mexican Republic
First Mexican Republic
Contents
Independence and immediate aftermath
Rise and fall of the First Mexican Empire
Provisional Government of Mexico (1823-1824)
1824 Constitution of Mexico
Creating new institutions
Spain and Spaniards in Mexico
Politics in the era of Guadalupe Victoria
Election of 1828
Presidency of Vicente Guerrero (1829)
Church-State relations
Conflicts with Indigenous peoples in Northern Mexico
End of the First Mexican Republic
Notes
Further reading

Content: The first president of the Republic, Guadalupe Victoria was also the only president who completed his full term in this period and in almost 30 years of independent Mexico. As in the early U.S., the president and vice president were elected separately and the men did not have to be of the same party, contributing to governmental instability. Political controversy, ever since the drafting of the constitution tended to center around whether Mexico should be a federal or a centralist state, with wider liberal and conservative causes attaching themselves to each faction respectively. General Antonio López de Santa Anna repealed the Constitution of 1824 on October 23, 1835, and the Federal Republic became a unitary state, the Centralist Republic. The unitary regime was formally established on December 30, 1836, with the enactment of the seven constitutional laws. Contents
1 Independence and immediate aftermath
2 Rise and fall of the First Mexican Empire
3 Provisional Government of Mexico (1823-1824)
4 1824 Constitution of Mexico
5 Creating new institutions
6 Spain and Spaniards in Mexico
7 Politics in the era of Guadalupe Victoria
8 Election of 1828
9 Presidency of Vicente Guerrero (1829)
10 Church-State relations
11 Conflicts with Indigenous peoples in Northern Mexico
12 End of the First Mexican Republic
13 Notes
14 Further reading
Independence and immediate aftermath
Flag of the Army of Three Guarantees, 1821
The Spanish overseas possession of the Viceroyalty of New Spain lasted for 300 years, from 1521 with the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and the foundation of Mexico City until the collapse of the viceroyalty in following years of civil war and military stalemate. An insurgency for independence from Spain lasted from the initial 1810 mass revolt, led by secular cleric Miguel Hidalgo and continued under another secular cleric, José María Morelos, and carried on the hot country of Mexico's south by Vicente Guerrero. Augustin Iturbide, a royalist military officer born in New Spain of Spanish parents, made a strategic alliance with insurgent leader Guerrero under the Plan of Iguala, in which the former foes fought in tandem to oust Spanish rule. The plan proclaimed Mexico a nation-state; Roman Catholicism as the sole religion;