Economic Perspectives in the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States: A Qualitative Analysis

The general objective of this work is to analyse the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (CPEUM) from an economic vision or approach; the study is framed under the deductive method, a hermeneutic paradigm and a descriptive and qualitative approach; statistical analysis is not carried out in this work. The CPEUM is composed of 136 articles. The economic Constitution or economic constitutional law is the set of norms and principles that are incorporated into the general Constitution, which concentrate the economic and financial relations between individuals and companies and the State. The economic part of the CPEUM is found in the block of articles 25, 26, 27 and 28, as well as in article 123 referring to the labour relationship. In addition, it is to be found in numbers 31 (section IV), 73 (sections VII, VIII, X, XXV, XXVIII, XXIX, XXIX-D, XXIX-E, XXIX-F), 74 (sections IV, VI, VII), 79 (heading), 115 (section IV), 117 (section VIII), 131 (initial paragraph) and 134 (initial paragraph), 3 (second paragraph), 4 (third, fourth and seventh paragraphs) and 5 (third paragraph).