Talk:Centralist Republic of Mexico

In need of serious clean-up

This article has grammatical and other errors throughout. Verb conjugations are atrocious. It needs some serious clean-up. Jeff in CA (talk) 08:21, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Bad title

The title of this article (which was translated from es:Wikipedia) is misleading - it implies that the title was at some point the official name of the Republic of Mexico. No sources are cited to support the idea that anyone ever used the name "Centralist Republic of Mexico" in any official capacity. I'm going to add a cite tag and, if no sources are added, propose that the title be changed. Any suggestions for a better title? WCCasey (talk) 06:40, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

I agree that the article's current title is misleading and suggest 'Mexico: centralist regime, 1836-1847'. Time magazine had a news story supported by a Library of Congress blog stating that Mexico's constitutional name was and is 'United Mexican States'. Whether or not the 'Constitutional Laws of 1836' (''Siete Leyes'') titled 'Rules and Laws of the Mexican Republic: Decreed by the General Congress of the Nation in the Year of 1836' temporarily changed Mexico's official name to 'Mexican Republic' needs the review of someone having more knowledge of Mexican law and history than I possess. Dean95452 (talk) 23:50, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

That's another good question. Does the use of "Mexican Republic" in the title and text of the Siete Leyes tell us whether or not that was a change in the official name of the country? It would have made sense - after changing the Mexican "states" (and "territories" like Alta California) to "departments", it would be illogical to keep calling the country "United States of Mexico". The LOC blog seems authoritative, and I would use it as a reliable source. It has links to digitized copies of most of the actual documents (in Spanish, of course). There's no link, however, to the "Act of Amendments of 1847", which the blog author says "basically placed the Constitution of 1824 back into force". We know that the "departments" of 1836 went back to their previous status as "states", so it's logical to assume that the name "Estados Unidos de Mexico" returned at the same time. It seems to me, then, that what this article needs (other than a better title) is an explanation of the change to "Republica Mexicana" and back again. WCCasey (talk) 01:11, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

This PBS commentary on the Mexican-American War uses the term "Centralist Republic" (capitalized), but without further explanation. WCCasey (talk) 01:54, 30 June 2014 (UTC)