Centralist Republic of Mexico

Mexican Republic República Mexicana
1835–1846
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Mexico   Disputed land between Texas and Mexico   Texas and Yucatan
Capital	Mexico City
Common languages	Spanish (official), Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, Mixtecan languages, Zapotec languages
Religion	Catholic (official religion)
Government	Unitary presidential republic
President
• 1835–1836	Miguel Barragán
• 1836–1837	José Justo Corro
• 1837–1841	Anastasio Bustamante
• 1841–1844	Antonio López de Santa Anna
• 1844–1845	José Joaquín de Herrera
• 1846	Mariano Paredes
Legislature	Congress
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	Chamber of Deputies
History
• 1824 Constitution repealed	23 October 1835
• Siete Leyes	15 December 1835
• Independence of Texas	2 March 1836
• Pastry War	1838–1839
• Siege of the National Palace	1840
• Independence of Yucatan	1841
• Bases Orgánicas	1843
• Mexican–American War breaks out	12 May 1846
• 1824 Constitution restored	22 August 1846
Population
• 1836[1]	7,843,132
• 1842[1]	7,016,300
Currency	Mexican real
Preceded by Succeeded by First Mexican Republic Republic of the Rio Grande Soconusco Tabasco Second Federal Republic of Mexico Republic of Texas Republic of the Rio Grande Tabasco Republic of Yucatán California Republic U.S. provisional government of New Mexico State of Deseret Puebla
Today part of	Mexico United States

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The Centralist Republic of Mexico (Spanish: República Centralista de México), or in the anglophone scholarship, the Central Republic,^[2] officially the Mexican Republic (Spanish: República Mexicana), was a unitary political regime established in Mexico on 23 October 1835, under a new constitution known as the Siete Leyes (lit. 'seven laws') after conservatives repealed the federalist Constitution of 1824 and ended the First Mexican Republic. It would ultimately last until 1846, when the Constitution of 1824 was restored at the beginning of the Mexican–American War.

Two presidents would predominate throughout this era: Santa Anna and Anastasio Bustamante.

The Centralist Republic marked nearly ten years of uninterrupted rule by the Conservative Party. Conservatives had attributed the political chaos of the First Mexican Republic to the empowerment of states over the federal government and mass participation in the political system through universal male suffrage. Conservative elites saw the solution to the problem as abolishing the federal system and creating a centralized one, reminiscent of the political system during the colonial era.^[3]

The political and economic chaos that had marked the First Republic, however, continued well throughout the Centralist Republic. Infighting among the conservatives resulted in administrations continuing to be interrupted by successful military coups, and another centralist constitution known as the Bases Orgánicas (lit. 'organic bases') would be attempted in 1843. Significant political and military agitation for the restoration of the federalist system continued as well. The period was marked by multiple secession attempts across Mexico, including the loss of Texas and Yucatan, and two international conflicts: the Pastry War, caused by French citizens' economic claims against the Mexican government, and the Mexican–American War, as a consequence of the annexation of Texas by the United States.

Instability in the government due to the beginning of the Mexican–American War, including a revolt by parts of the army, finally resulted in restoration of the Constitution of 1824 on 22 August 1846, beginning the Second Federal Republic of Mexico.