The concept of property of the 1917 Mexican Constitution

Abstract

This document will describe the nature of the Mexican constitutional framework with respect to property. The most distinctive feature of this framework is the broad discretion assigned to the president concerning the definition of property rights. This legal capacity is augmented by the general power of the Mexican president. This document will first describe the concept of property as defined in the Constitution of 1917 an its philosophical justification. The analysis focuses in article 27, where property is defined. Although this article has suffered innumerable changes since 1917, I will focus on the original version.