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The Mexico are a federation made up by thirty-one free and sovereign states. These states conform one federated State or Union, the federal government, which has exclusive jurisdiction over the Mexico City, a territory which does not belong to any state but to all, as well as the islands, atolls and reefs that do not belong to any state. The Federal District is coextensive with Mexico City, capital of the federation and seat of government. The 31 states and the Federal District are collectively called federal entities (entidades federativas in Spanish language).

Origin of the federation The United Mexican states were born as an independent Union after the ratification of the 1824 Constitution of Mexico, on October 4, 1824. During the course of the year the several states that would form the federation had begun to write and ratify their own constitutions. Central America which had been part of the ephemeral First Mexican Empire, decided not to join the Union and to become an independent state made up by the territory that once had formed the Captaincy General of Guatemala. In the Central American region of Chiapas a movement requested a referendum to let their citizens choose whether to remain as part of Mexico or to join the Central American newly formed federation. The majority of the population voted for the Union to Mexico, and Chiapas seceded from Central America and joined the Mexican federation in 1824. Thus, the founding states were 19: Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila y Tejas, Durango, Guanajuato, State of Mexico, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla,, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora y Sinaloa (also called Estado de Occidente, "Western State"), Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Jalisco, Yucatán and Zacatecas. Three federal territories were formed: California, Lower California, Colima, and New Mexico. Later that year the Federal District was created. Tlaxcala (after a long debate at the Congress) became a federal territory on November 24, 1824.The federation was dissolved on two separate occasions during the 19th century and a unitary state type of government was established. The first period spanned from 1835 to 1846 starting with the ratification of the Siete Leyes (Seven Laws), the foundational and constitutional framework that created the "First Central Republic" and after a brief dictatorial period, the ratification of the Bases Orgánicas de la República confirmed this form of internal organization and created the "Second Central Republic". During this period Texas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas and Yucatán declared their independence from Mexico if federalism was not fully restored. Texas became an independent republic in 1836 and never joined Mexico again. Yucatan became an independent republic for 2 years and rejoined the Union when Antonio López de Santa Anna allowed the state to retain its political and fiscal autonomy (a constitution and custom laws) which differentiated the state from the rest of the states which had been transformed into "departaments". It became independent again when these privileges were abolished, but rejoined the Union after the Mexican-American War. After the Mexican-American War, and through the Pact of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Mexico had to cede the territories of New Mexico and the Upper California to the United States. These territories would eventually become the US states California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah and included regions that would become part of the states of Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming.

Federalism was restored in 1846, and in 1857 a new federal constitution was ratified. In 1864, the federation was dissolved for a second time and a constitutional and centralist monarchy was established, headed by Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg. Maximilian was deposed in 1867 by the republican forces, and the federation was finally restored.

The federation The national territory, as defined in the Mexican Constitution, is composed by the 31 free and sovereign states and the Federal District. The states and the Federal District are collectively called "federative entities" (entidades federativas in Spanish), as they are the individual constituent parts or entities of the federation. In addition, the national territory includes the islands, reefs and atolls in the adjacent seas, some of which belong to a particular state (like the case of the Guadalupe Island and Revillagigedo Islands islands which belong to Baja California and Colima, respectively), and some of which belong to the federation.

The states The states of the Mexican federation are free, sovereign, autonomous and independent from each other. They have the right to create their own constitution. However, they cannot make an alliance with any other state of the Union nor with any independent state except those agreements between the states located at the international borders if there is an unexpected invasion from a foreign nation.

The political organization of each state is based on a separation of powers in a congressional system: the legislative power is represented by a unicameral congress, the executive power is independent from the legislative and is headed by a "governor" and its cabinet, the judicial power is exercised by a Court of Justice.

Every state is represented by three senators in the Senate: two are elected through universal suffrage by plurality; the third one is assigned to the "first minority" party. The federation conforms a single constituency from which 32 senators are elected by proportional representation with open party lists. Mexican Chamber of Deputies, on the contrary, do not represent the states, but the citizens. The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate form the Congress of the Union.

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to Union| style="background:#e9e9e9;" align=center | Population (2005)| style="background:#e9e9e9;" align=center | Area| style="background:#e9e9e9;" align=center | ISO 3166|-|1. Aguascalientes| align="center"|[1835|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|2. [Baja California| align="center"| [1952|-|3. [Baja California Sur| align="center" | [1974|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|4. [Campeche| align="center" |[1858|-|5. [Chiapas| align="center" | [1824|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|6. [Chihuahua| align="center" | [1824|-|7. [Coahuila| align="center" | [1824 1]|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|8. Colima| align="center" | [1857|-|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|9. [Durango| align="center" | [1824|-|10. [Guanajuato| align="center" | [1824|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|11. [Guerrero| align="center" | [1858|-|12. [Hidalgo (Mexico)| Pachuca| align="right" | 2,334,000| align="right" | | align="center"|[Hidalgo (Mexico)|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|13. Jalisco| align="center" | [1824|-|14. [Mexico (state)| Toluca| align="right" | 14,161,000| align="right" | | align="center"|[Mexico (state)|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|15. Michoacán| align="center" | [1824|-|16. [Morelos| align="center" | [1869|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|17. [Nayarit| align="center" | [1917|-|18. [Nuevo León| align="center" | [1824 ²]|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|19. Oaxaca| align="center" | [1824|-|20. [Puebla| align="center" | [1824|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|21. [Querétaro| align="center" | [1824|-|22. [Quintana Roo| align="center" | [1974|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|23. [San Luis Potosí| align="center" | [1824|-|24. [Sinaloa| align="center" | [1831 ³]|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|25. Sonora| align="center" | [1831 ³]|-|26. Tabasco| align="center" | [1824|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|27. [Tamaulipas| align="center" | [1824 ²]|-|28. Tlaxcala| align="center" | [1857|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|29. [Veracruz| align="center" | [1824|-|30. [Yucatán| align="center" | [1824 4]|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|31. Zacatecas| align="center" | [1824|}
1Joined the federation under the name of Coahuila and Texas. In [1833 the district of Bexar seceded constitutionally from the state to form the separate state of Texas which became an independent republic in 1836, and the name of the state was shortened to Coahuila. Briefly, in 1856 Nuevo León annexed Coahuila in a referendum and declared its independence from Mexico. After the defeat of the separatist forces, Coahuila separated from Nuevo León.

²Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Coahuila declared their independence form Mexico and formed a de facto independent country for 250 days, after which the separatist forces were defeated and they rejoined the federation.

³In 1824 this state joined the Union as the state of Sonora and Sinaloa, though its own constitution chose the name "Estado de Occidente". In 1830 the state was divided in two to form the separate states of Sonora and Sinaloa, which, after ratifying their own constitutions joined the federation in 1831.

4The Intendencia of Yucatán joined the Mexican Empire and then the federation in 1824. It became an independent republic in two occasions (1841-1843 and 1846-1848). This state comprised the territories of Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatán.

Internal divisions of the states The states are divided into municipalities of Mexico. Each municipality is administratively autonomous; citizens elect a "municipal president" who heads an ayuntamiento or municipal council, responsible of providing all the public services for their constituents. This concept, which originated after the Mexican Revolution is known as a municipio libre ("free municipality"). The municipal president cannot be reelected for the next immediate term. The municipal council consists of a cabildo (chairman) and several síndicos (trustees). If the municipality covers a large area and contains more than one city, one city is selected as a cabecera municipal (head city, seat of the municipality's government) while the rest elect representatives of a presidencia auxiliar (auxiliary presidency). There are 2,438 municipalities in Mexico; the state with the greatest number of municipalities is Oaxaca (with 570 municipalities) and the state with the least number is Baja California (with only 5).

The Federal District Mexico City has a special status within the federation. According to a recent change in the constitution of Mexico, article 44 states that Mexico City is the Federal District, seat of the government (powers of the Union) and capital of the United Mexican States. The city is coextensive with the Federal District territorially and administratively. If the federal government moves to another city, the Federal District would be transformed into another state of the Union, called "State of the Valley of Mexico" with the new limits and area that the Congress of the Union gives it.

Mexico City was separated from the State of Mexico, of which it was the capital, in 1824 to become the capital of the federation. As such, it does not belong to any state in particular but to all (i.e. to the federation). Therefore, it was the president of Mexico, in representation of the federation, who designated its Head of Government of the Federal District (previously called regente, "regent" or jefe del departamento del Distrito Federal, "head of the department of the Federal District"). However, the Federal District received full autonomy in 1997 and its citizens now elect directly their chief of government, the head of the boroughs (or delegaciones) and the representatives of the unicameral legislature called the Asamblea Legislativa, "Legislative Assembly". It does not have a constitution but a statute of autonomy. Nonetheless it enjoys many privileges as the capital of the federation.

The Federal District is represented at the Congress of the Union like any state by two senators elected by plurality and one assigned to the first minority.

With 8.5 million inhabitants Mexico City is the most populous city in Mexico and, being coextensive with the Federal District, is the second most populous political division (or entidad federativa, "federal entity") in the country. The metropolitan area of the city, however, extends over 40 municipalities of the state of Mexico and 1 of the state of Hidalgo, and with a population of 19.2 million, it is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.

Internal divisions of the Federal District For administrative purposes, the Federal District is divided into 16 delegaciones or boroughs of the Mexican Federal District. While not fully equivalent to a municipality (nor the concept of a municipio libre), the 16 boroughs have gained significant autonomy and since 2000 the heads of government of the boroughs are elected directly by plurality (they were previously appointed by the head of government of the Federal District). Given that Mexico City is organized entirely as a Federal District most of the city services are provided by the Government of the Federal District and not by the boroughs themselves, while in the constituent states these services would be provided by the municipalities. It should be noted that while other cities within the constituent states of the federation exercise their autonomy through the municipal council, some, like Querétaro, Querétaro, have further subdivided the municipality into delegaciones or boroughs for administrative purposes as well.

Self-determination of the indigenous peoples The second article of the constitution recognizes the multicultural composition of the nation founded upon the indigenous peoples of Mexico to whom the government grants the right of self-(free)determination and autonomy. According to this article the indigenous peoples are granted amongst other rights.

The nation commits to and demands the constituent states and municipalities to promote the economic and social development of the indigenous communities as well as an intercultural and bilingual education. According to the Law of Linguistic Rights, the nation recognizes 62 indigenous languages as "languages of Mexico" with the same validity as Spanish in the territories in which they are spoken and the indigenous peoples are entitled to request public services in their languages.

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The Mexico are a federation made up by thirty-one free and sovereign states. These states conform one federated State or Union, the federal government, which has exclusive jurisdiction over the Mexico City, a territory which does not belong to any state but to all, as well as the islands, atolls and reefs that do not belong to any state. The Federal District is coextensive with Mexico City, capital of the federation and seat of government. The 31 states and the Federal District are collectively called federal entities (entidades federativas in Spanish language).

Origin of the federation The United Mexican states were born as an independent Union after the ratification of the 1824 Constitution of Mexico, on October 4, 1824. During the course of the year the several states that would form the federation had begun to write and ratify their own constitutions. Central America which had been part of the ephemeral First Mexican Empire, decided not to join the Union and to become an independent state made up by the territory that once had formed the Captaincy General of Guatemala. In the Central American region of Chiapas a movement requested a referendum to let their citizens choose whether to remain as part of Mexico or to join the Central American newly formed federation. The majority of the population voted for the Union to Mexico, and Chiapas seceded from Central America and joined the Mexican federation in 1824. Thus, the founding states were 19: Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila y Tejas, Durango, Guanajuato, State of Mexico, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla,, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora y Sinaloa (also called Estado de Occidente, "Western State"), Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Jalisco, Yucatán and Zacatecas. Three federal territories were formed: California, Lower California, Colima, and New Mexico. Later that year the Federal District was created. Tlaxcala (after a long debate at the Congress) became a federal territory on November 24, 1824.The federation was dissolved on two separate occasions during the 19th century and a unitary state type of government was established. The first period spanned from 1835 to 1846 starting with the ratification of the Siete Leyes (Seven Laws), the foundational and constitutional framework that created the "First Central Republic" and after a brief dictatorial period, the ratification of the Bases Orgánicas de la República confirmed this form of internal organization and created the "Second Central Republic". During this period Texas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas and Yucatán declared their independence from Mexico if federalism was not fully restored. Texas became an independent republic in 1836 and never joined Mexico again. Yucatan became an independent republic for 2 years and rejoined the Union when Antonio López de Santa Anna allowed the state to retain its political and fiscal autonomy (a constitution and custom laws) which differentiated the state from the rest of the states which had been transformed into "departaments". It became independent again when these privileges were abolished, but rejoined the Union after the Mexican-American War. After the Mexican-American War, and through the Pact of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Mexico had to cede the territories of New Mexico and the Upper California to the United States. These territories would eventually become the US states California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah and included regions that would become part of the states of Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming.

Federalism was restored in 1846, and in 1857 a new federal constitution was ratified. In 1864, the federation was dissolved for a second time and a constitutional and centralist monarchy was established, headed by Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg. Maximilian was deposed in 1867 by the republican forces, and the federation was finally restored.

The federation The national territory, as defined in the Mexican Constitution, is composed by the 31 free and sovereign states and the Federal District. The states and the Federal District are collectively called "federative entities" (entidades federativas in Spanish), as they are the individual constituent parts or entities of the federation. In addition, the national territory includes the islands, reefs and atolls in the adjacent seas, some of which belong to a particular state (like the case of the Guadalupe Island and Revillagigedo Islands islands which belong to Baja California and Colima, respectively), and some of which belong to the federation.

The states The states of the Mexican federation are free, sovereign, autonomous and independent from each other. They have the right to create their own constitution. However, they cannot make an alliance with any other state of the Union nor with any independent state except those agreements between the states located at the international borders if there is an unexpected invasion from a foreign nation.

The political organization of each state is based on a separation of powers in a congressional system: the legislative power is represented by a unicameral congress, the executive power is independent from the legislative and is headed by a "governor" and its cabinet, the judicial power is exercised by a Court of Justice.

Every state is represented by three senators in the Senate: two are elected through universal suffrage by plurality; the third one is assigned to the "first minority" party. The federation conforms a single constituency from which 32 senators are elected by proportional representation with open party lists. Mexican Chamber of Deputies, on the contrary, do not represent the states, but the citizens. The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate form the Congress of the Union.

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1Joined the federation under the name of Coahuila and Texas. In [1833 the district of Bexar seceded constitutionally from the state to form the separate state of Texas which became an independent republic in 1836, and the name of the state was shortened to Coahuila. Briefly, in 1856 Nuevo León annexed Coahuila in a referendum and declared its independence from Mexico. After the defeat of the separatist forces, Coahuila separated from Nuevo León.

²Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Coahuila declared their independence form Mexico and formed a de facto independent country for 250 days, after which the separatist forces were defeated and they rejoined the federation.

³In 1824 this state joined the Union as the state of Sonora and Sinaloa, though its own constitution chose the name "Estado de Occidente". In 1830 the state was divided in two to form the separate states of Sonora and Sinaloa, which, after ratifying their own constitutions joined the federation in 1831.

4The Intendencia of Yucatán joined the Mexican Empire and then the federation in 1824. It became an independent republic in two occasions (1841-1843 and 1846-1848). This state comprised the territories of Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatán.

Internal divisions of the states The states are divided into municipalities of Mexico. Each municipality is administratively autonomous; citizens elect a "municipal president" who heads an ayuntamiento or municipal council, responsible of providing all the public services for their constituents. This concept, which originated after the Mexican Revolution is known as a municipio libre ("free municipality"). The municipal president cannot be reelected for the next immediate term. The municipal council consists of a cabildo (chairman) and several síndicos (trustees). If the municipality covers a large area and contains more than one city, one city is selected as a cabecera municipal (head city, seat of the municipality's government) while the rest elect representatives of a presidencia auxiliar (auxiliary presidency). There are 2,438 municipalities in Mexico; the state with the greatest number of municipalities is Oaxaca (with 570 municipalities) and the state with the least number is Baja California (with only 5).

The Federal District Mexico City has a special status within the federation. According to a recent change in the constitution of Mexico, article 44 states that Mexico City is the Federal District, seat of the government (powers of the Union) and capital of the United Mexican States. The city is coextensive with the Federal District territorially and administratively. If the federal government moves to another city, the Federal District would be transformed into another state of the Union, called "State of the Valley of Mexico" with the new limits and area that the Congress of the Union gives it.

Mexico City was separated from the State of Mexico, of which it was the capital, in 1824 to become the capital of the federation. As such, it does not belong to any state in particular but to all (i.e. to the federation). Therefore, it was the president of Mexico, in representation of the federation, who designated its Head of Government of the Federal District (previously called regente, "regent" or jefe del departamento del Distrito Federal, "head of the department of the Federal District"). However, the Federal District received full autonomy in 1997 and its citizens now elect directly their chief of government, the head of the boroughs (or delegaciones) and the representatives of the unicameral legislature called the Asamblea Legislativa, "Legislative Assembly". It does not have a constitution but a statute of autonomy. Nonetheless it enjoys many privileges as the capital of the federation.

The Federal District is represented at the Congress of the Union like any state by two senators elected by plurality and one assigned to the first minority.

With 8.5 million inhabitants Mexico City is the most populous city in Mexico and, being coextensive with the Federal District, is the second most populous political division (or entidad federativa, "federal entity") in the country. The metropolitan area of the city, however, extends over 40 municipalities of the state of Mexico and 1 of the state of Hidalgo, and with a population of 19.2 million, it is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.

Internal divisions of the Federal District For administrative purposes, the Federal District is divided into 16 delegaciones or boroughs of the Mexican Federal District. While not fully equivalent to a municipality (nor the concept of a municipio libre), the 16 boroughs have gained significant autonomy and since 2000 the heads of government of the boroughs are elected directly by plurality (they were previously appointed by the head of government of the Federal District). Given that Mexico City is organized entirely as a Federal District most of the city services are provided by the Government of the Federal District and not by the boroughs themselves, while in the constituent states these services would be provided by the municipalities. It should be noted that while other cities within the constituent states of the federation exercise their autonomy through the municipal council, some, like Querétaro, Querétaro, have further subdivided the municipality into delegaciones or boroughs for administrative purposes as well.

Self-determination of the indigenous peoples The second article of the constitution recognizes the multicultural composition of the nation founded upon the indigenous peoples of Mexico to whom the government grants the right of self-(free)determination and autonomy. According to this article the indigenous peoples are granted amongst other rights.

The nation commits to and demands the constituent states and municipalities to promote the economic and social development of the indigenous communities as well as an intercultural and bilingual education. According to the Law of Linguistic Rights, the nation recognizes 62 indigenous languages as "languages of Mexico" with the same validity as Spanish in the territories in which they are spoken and the indigenous peoples are entitled to request public services in their languages.

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