is that Mexico is a so called "civil law" country while the U.S. is a "common law" country.
Mexico's civil law system is derived primarily from Roman law as set forth in the compilation of codes and statutes of the Emperor Justinian, called Corpus Juris Civilis, and later refined in the French or Napoleonic Code of 1804.
Mexico's legal system is also influenced by colonial law (the Spanish and "Indian" law of Spain's colonization in the areas that became Mexico and other present day Latin American countries),
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Mexican legal system, it is useful to compare it to the U.S. legal system. A fundamental difference between the two legal systems is that Mexico is a so called "civil law" country while the U.S. is a "common law" country.
In contrast, Mexico's civil law system is derived primarily from Roman law as set forth
****in the compilation of codes and statutes of the Emperor Justinian, called Corpus Juris Civilis, and later refined in the French or Napoleonic Code of 1804.
Interestingly, the development of Mexican commercial law drew heavily on Italian law. Mexico's legal system is also influenced by colonial law
The seeds of economic modernization were laid under the restored Republic (1867-76) (see The Restoration, 1867-76, ch. 1). President Benito Juárez (1855-72) sought to attract foreign capital to finance Mexico's economic modernization.
His government revised the tax and tariff structure to revitalize the mining industry, and it improved the transportation and communications infrastructure to allow fuller exploitation of the country's natural resources.
Postwar Economic Growth
Mexico's inward-looking development strategy produced sustained economic growth of 3 to 4 percent and modest 3 percent inflation annually from the 1940s until the late 1960s. The government fostered the development of consumer goods industries directed toward domestic markets by imposing high protective tariffs and other barriers to imports.
Conclusions on Mexico (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Economic System)
As a result of all the problems that Mexican politicans were faced to deal with I would have to say that Mexico is stuck in a Industrial economy, with strong desirers to become more stable.