La igualdad ante la ley en las normas del Segundo Imperio Mexicano, 1864-1867

Abstract

In April of 1864, the Austrian Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg accepted the crown of the Second Mexican Empire, urged by Mexican monarchists and supported by Napoleon III. He arrived in Mexico City on June 12, an unfamiliar land with customs and ideologies different from the European monarchies and with an established constitutional administration, Maximilian worked to develop and implement laws for the imperial State. Although the sector that fought for him to be named emperor wanted him to restore the privileges that had been abolished by the liberal governments, but rather than restoring abolished privileges, he embraced ideas of equality before the law, as evidenced in the

Provisional Statute of the Mexican Empire

and

the Law of Individual Guarantees

from 1865 This article aims to analyze Maximilian's political thought and ideological influences, the impact of his laws on society, and the confrontations he had with conservative and monarchist factions.