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Mexico - MSN Encarta (2198 words) |
 | The conservative faction was composed primarily of church leaders, rich landowners, criollos, and army officials. |
| In the early 1800s Texas was a sparsely populated and weakly governed region that functioned as part of the Mexican state of Coahuila and Texas. |
| The 1855 takeover of the government by the liberals began a period known as La Reforma, in which liberal leaders sought to reduce the power of the church and the military in Mexican politics and society. |
| Mexico - The Federalist Republic, 1824-36 (940 words) |
| The congress had two major factions: the federalists, who feared control from a conservative Mexico City and were supported by liberal criollos and mestizos; and the more conservative centralists, who preferred the rule of tradition and drew their allegiance from the clergy, conservative criollos, the landowners, and the military. |
| One of the government's major burdens was the assumption of all debts contracted during the late colonial period and the empire, a substantial sum. |
| The government's ability to service the debt was severely constrained by the costs of maintaining a 50,000-strong standing army and the insufficiency of revenues generated by tariffs, taxes, and government monopolies. |
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