Ley para Castigar los Delitos Contra la Nacion, Contra el Orden y la Paz Publica

Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido, 1856. Still very good.. 17pp. Original printed wrappers, bound into full calf, front board gilt lettered. Some toning and scattered, light foxing. This law was promulgated at the end of 1856 by the new liberal government of Mexico following its ascendancy in the mid-1850s, and preceded the reform Constitution of 1857 by two months. Its statutes defined "crimes against the independence and security of the nation," including various forms of treason, rebellion, and foreign military service or assistance, and made them punishable by death. The law anticipated conservative resistance and revolt against the new policies of the liberal faction that aimed to strip power and influence from the church and traditional aristocracy of the country. Their efforts indeed led to full-scale civil war in 1858 and the second French intervention in the early 1860s. OCLC locates a small handful of institutional copies and we locate just one in available sales records. Scarce, and in attractive original wrappers.