Mexico adopts a new liberal constitution, the culmination of "La Reforma," a 3-year effort to end Church influence in government, open up land to private ownership, and abolish special privileges for military and ecclesiastical officials. (By Brian Bockelman)
Source Citation
David F. Marley, Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1998), 528.
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