powers of the central government and strengthened the power of the executive branch. These latter provisions have facilitated the president’s autocratic control of the nation’s political life but they have also increased the authority and flexibility of the state in managing the economic development of the nation. The zapatistas wished to establish a parliamentary democracy in Mexico and make all important laws subject to popular referendum. The revolutionaries of the South even went so far as to guarantee the people’s right to revolution.
We can see from the above passage that the novel concepts originated by men like John Locke with respect to the people’s right to revol
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