| Colima Territory Territorio de Colima | |||||||||
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| Territory of Mexico | |||||||||
| 1824–1857 | |||||||||
 Location of the Colima Territory (green) in Mexico. | |||||||||
| Capital | Colima | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Territory of Mexico | ||||||||
| Territorial governor | |||||||||
• 1852–1857 | Manuel Álvarez Zamora (last) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 4 October 1824 | ||||||||
| 9 December 1857 | |||||||||
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The Colima Territory (Spanish : Territorio de Colima) was a federal territory of Mexico that existed between 1824 and 1857, when it was granted statehood within the United Mexican States as Colima.
Colima was a part of the Intendancy of Guadalajara (formerly the province of Nueva Galicia) until the Mexican Declaration of Independence in 1821. With the fall of the short-lived First Mexican Empire, the provinces began to draft constitutions to form a federation, the United Mexican States. On 20 June 1823, Colonel Anastacio Brizuela , commander of the 21st division of the Southern Militia, agreed with the city council of the city of Colima and the residents of this town to separate from the Intendancy of Guadalajara. With the promulgation of the First Federal Constitution of Mexico in 1824, Colima received the status of federal territory, [1] thus formally separating from the Intendancy of Guadalajara, which joined the federation as a state with the name of Jalisco. Finally in 1857, with the promulgation of the Second Federal Constitution of Mexico, Colima was integrated as a "free and sovereign state." [2]
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Colima, located in central−western Mexico, is the capital of the state of the same name and the seat of the municipality of the same name. It is located near the Colima volcano, which divides the state from Jalisco. Colima is the state's second largest municipality by population after Manzanillo.
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Nuevo Reino de Galicia or simply Nueva Galicia was an autonomous kingdom of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. It was named after Galicia in Spain. Nueva Galicia's territory consisted of the present-day Mexican states of Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Zacatecas.
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Mexico has experienced many changes in territorial organization during its history as an independent state. The territorial boundaries of Mexico were affected by presidential and imperial decrees. One such decree was the Law of Bases for the Convocation of the Constituent Congress to the Constitutive Act of the Mexican Federation, which determined the national land area as the result of integration of the jurisdictions that corresponded to New Spain, the Captaincy General of Yucatán, the Captaincy General of Guatemala and the autonomous Kingdoms of East and West. The decree resulted in the independence from Spain.
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The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1857, often called simply the Constitution of 1857, was the liberal constitution promulgated in 1857 by Constituent Congress of Mexico during the presidency of Ignacio Comonfort. Ratified on February 5, 1857, the constitution established individual rights, including universal male suffrage, and others such as freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and the right to bear arms. It also reaffirmed the abolition of slavery, debtors' prisons, and all forms of cruel and unusual punishment such as the death penalty. The constitution was designed to guarantee a limited central government by federalism and created a strong national congress, an independent judiciary, and a small executive to prevent a dictatorship. Liberal ideals meant the constitution emphasized private property of individuals and sought to abolish common ownership by corporate entities, mainly the Catholic Church and indigenous communities, incorporating the legal thrust of the Lerdo Law into the constitution.
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