Política y orden jurídico en la construcción del Estado mexicano. El debate sobre la calificación electoral en el Constituyente del Estado de México, 1826

This article analyzes the debates of the first Constituent Congress of Estado de México on the electoral dispute consequence of the first legislative elections in the state, at a crucial time for its setting up: the discussion of the first state constitution and the defining of the three levels of power at the local level. The aim is to show, according this case study, how in the parliamentary debates were evident the challenge of building a federal republic with two distinct areas of authority that were not well defined in these early years of independence. In these parliamentary discussions is also possible to find notions of the new modern legal order that the new Mexican political class pretended, among which highlights the importance that the State gave to the law, monopolizing its production and substantially reducing its sources of written law