The enlightenment concepts were violated when the mexican government decided to breach its constitution. By breach i mean their president porforio Diaz who violated the constitution by staying in power for 31 years.
By Angelbntz77
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John Locke
"John Locke (1632–1704) is among the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch. "John Locke believed that god himself chose the monarchs who rule. That and all men were equal. -
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Enlightment and Mexican Revolution
The principles of Enlightment and Revolution -
Thomas Hobbes
"Hobbes believed that a government headed by a king was the best form that the sovereign could take. Placing all power in the hands of a king would mean more resolute and consistent exercise of political authority, Hobbes argued. "Thomas Hobbes believed that people were selfish and made bad decisions. That's why he believed that people should have someone higher power than them making some decisions. -
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This violated John Locke's ideas of enlightenment where the government had to protect their right where porforio diaz violated that. -
Montesquieu
“Montesquieu was one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Insatiably curious and mordantly funny, he constructed a naturalistic account of the various forms of government." Rousseau believed in the social contract. The social contract is a contract where the government put your rights in a contract and if the government were to violate them you were able to leave and come up with your own idea of government. -
Rousseau
"Rousseau believed that good government must have the freedom of all its citizens as its most fundamental objective. The Social Contract in particular is Rousseau’s attempt to imagine the form of government that best affirms the individual freedom of all its citizens, with certain constraints inherent to a complex, modern, civil society." Rousseau believed in the social contract. -
Porfirio Diaz violations
"The Mexican Revolution started in 1910, when liberals and intellectuals began to challenge the regime of dictator Porfirio Díaz, who had been in power since 1877, a term of 34 years called El Porfirio, violating the principles and ideals of the Mexican Constitution of 1857." What caused the Mexican revolution was the corrupt government they were tired of Porfirio Diaz being in power for 31 years. -
Porfirio Diaz violations continued
This enlightenment idea goes with Rousseau because as a constitution your supposed to be protecting their rights and have balanced power and he violated this. In instance we can see that Porfirio Diaz violated that by staying in power for over 30 years. Where Montesquieu wanted equality and protection of rights where Porfirio Diaz violates that by going on to be the president for another 31 years -
Revolution Causes
"The motives for waging the Mexican Revolution grew out of the belief that a few wealthy landowners could no longer continue the old ways of Spanish colonial rule; a feudal-like system called la encomienda. That system needed to be replaced by a modern one in which those who actually worked the land should extract its wealth through their labor." This also goes with Rousseau because this violates their rights with this. -
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What this is basically saying is that people revolted to have a new system of economy instead of having rule over someone's land where the one working that land should get that wealth. The wealthy people didn't want that so that's why. -
Government and Aftermath
"The constitution of 1917 specifically incorporated the major features of the 1824 and 1857 charters regarding territorial organization, civil liberties, democratic forms, and anticlerical and antimonopoly clauses. The constitution completely reversed the concept widely held in Mexico that government should take only a limited, passive role. It argued that the national government had an obligation to take an active role in promoting the social, economic, and cultural well-being of it. " -
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Article 3 sketched a vast plan of secular, free, compulsory public education. Article 14 reaffirmed the sanctity of private property and contracts, but Article 27 interjected concepts of social utility and national benefit to limit the untrammeled use of private property. " This goes with Thomas Hobbs and his ideas/beliefs and how after having a corrupt government with a terrible leader they were able to reestablish with someone in power who had better plans for Mexico's future. -
SOURCES
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montesquieu/ - Enlightment
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/#:~:text=John%20Locke%20(1632%E2%80%931704),naturally%20subject%20to%20a%20monarch. - Enlightment
https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/rousseau/themes/#:~:text=Rousseau%20believed%20modern%20man's%20enslavement,as%20its%20most%20fundamental%20objective.- Enlightment -
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https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-20-2-c-hobbes-locke-montesquieu-and-rousseau-on-government.html- Enlightment
https://www.britannica.com/place/Mexico/The-Mexican-Revolution-and-its-aftermath-1910-40- MX REVOLUTION https://edsitement.neh.gov/closer-readings/mexican-revolution-november-20th-1910#:~:text=The%20Mexican%20Revolution%20started%20in,the%20Mexican%20Constitution%20of%201857. - MX REVOLUTION -