Venustiano Carranza’s Pre-Constitutional Government

Abstract

This article discusses how a solution was found to the need to call elections to form the Constituent Congress of Quer?taro, which laid the legal and institutional foundations of twentieth-century Mexico. The origin of that congress was announced in the Plan de Guadalupe (1913) by Venustiano Carranza, who, in addition to proposing actions related to the political and internal military life of Mexico, also took control of deciding the stance of the Constitutionalist movement in the face of foreign governments, among other issues.