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MOSQUERA, Ángeles. Ejército y milicia cívica. Fuerzas armadas y pugna de poderes en el primer parlamentarismo mexicano, 1821-1824. Secuencia [online]. 2005, n.63, pp.98-126. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i63.932.

In 1821, Mexico obtained its independence from the metropolis, thereby beginning its journey towards the construction of a state based, according to the Plan of Iguala and the Cordoba Treaties on a parliamentary monarchy that defined the division of powers but without a monarch to occupy the throne at that moment. The union of the various social sectors around the Plan of Ayala was shattered as differences between them began to emerge. These differences were reflected in some of the debates that arose in the first Mexican parliament. The discussions on the armed forces that sought to establish itself in the country gave rise to one of the debates that most clearly evinced the struggle for power between the various political factions, a conflict that would end with the dissolution of Congress decreed by the then emperor Agustín de Iturbide.

Palavras-chave : Empire; Mexico; constitutionalism; army; militia; Iturbide.