New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-07
MEXICO.
The NEW CONSTITUTION.

From Our Own Correspondent.
Mexico, Thursday. June ~, 1856.
The Constitution has been reported to Congress,
ard Was given to the public late yesterday after.
noon. i have merely tilno to give it rapid
glance It's based principally on that Of 1924, but
is more liberal Federal Constitution than il.
There were two dissenting votes. Each minority
made a separate report The substance of this
Constitution is principally as follows:
There are to be no titles Of nobility. prercga!ives
nor hereditary honors. No retroactive or er post
.tacto law can ever be given. No person to be mo
ested nor bis house searched, nor any property or
papers seized except by competent judicial su-
thOrity, sustained by one witness, describing the
place, &c. All have the right to possess and carry
aims for their defense, the law to determine which
is to be prohibited. No soldiers to be quartered
in time of peace on any private person without his
consent The military to be at all times subject
TO the civil law No violation Of correspondence
in the Post-Office. Slavery is prohibited, and
slaves escaping hither are to be free. No treaty
to be ever made for the delivery of slaves escaping
to the Republic. The press to be free. Ihe 10th
article s Us fOllOws
oNo law nor order shall be issued in the Republic
prohibiting or hndering the exercise OF any Kind Of
religious worship; but the Catholic Apostolic Roman
,eion ever having been exclusively that of the Mex
ic,S people the Congress of the Union will take care,
by means Of just and prudent laws, to protect the
same when is ths protection does not pre- udice the
interests Of the people nor the national sovereign
rights No letters Of security passports to be
requiIed education to be frce the right OF petition to
be inyolabe there is to be national monopoes Of
spy kind Mexicans have the right to meet and dis
GUS the political affairs of the country property is not
to be taken without previous indemnity there 10 be
trial by jury; 10 imprisonment for debt; condemns
ton to service in the chaingang Is prohibited foreign
ems are not make any claims sgainst the Government
without first having recourse to the Mexican bunas
all McxcaDs to be entitled to vote IN the popular cleo
tOns and eligible to office. The sovereignty resides in
the pet pie; ali power to emanate from them. The
people exercise th, r sovereign by means of the
low ers Of the Union ia the cases which correspond to
them and BY of those of the States IN all relating
to their internal regimen
The territorial division remains the same as
formerly. The powers of Government are to be
the Executive, Legislative and Judicial. The
Legislative power to be reposed III one Assembly,
which shall be dcnOminated the Congress of the
Union. The Representatives to thus Congress to
be elected every two years, and there s to be one
for every 80, 600 inhabitants.
The exercise of the Executive power of the
Union to be intrusted to a President, who is to
hold the Office for four years. In default OF this
officer, temporary or otherwise, the same power
is to be exercised by the President OF the Supreme
Court. The President is to have the veto power,
nearly in similar manner as has tee President of
the United States.
The judicial power is to be exercised by the
Supreme Court and the Circuit and District
Courts-the former to be composed of eleven pro-
pretary and four supernumerary judges, one
prosecuting and ono federal attorney.
The States are to adopt for their interior gov
eminent the republican popular representative
form of government Each State to deliver up
criminals escaping from another State upon de-
mand being made by the State from which such
criminal may escape. They are not to celebrate
treaties, &c, and can only impose direct contri-
buttons No Mexican to hold two Offices at once.
Tie Circuit and District Courts are to be the
agents through whom the general laws are to be
communicated.
All laws may originate in Congress, or at the
petition of the States or the people
l presume this Constitution will be altered
before it is adopted by Congress; therefore, do
not make more lengthy examination of it. The
minority, among other things, wanted the Congress
to consist Of two Chambers, Senate and House
of Representatives, and the prohibition of the
exercise of any other form of religious worship
than the Catholic