The church and the revolution in Jalisco state

Abstract

This article deals with the controversia! political relationships between the Catholic Church and the different revolutionary governments in the jalisco state between 1911 and 1 915. 1t al so gives account of how the Catholic political groups ruled the state and how little by little these groups handed over the political power to the revolutionary governments. The article also points out the main elements of the Catholic political propasal and its similarities with sorne revolutionary requests. This work con eludes with an analysis of how starting from 1914 with the governor Manual M. Diéguez, the ecclesiastic power falls below the anticlerical measures driven by the state government and which la ter will arise from the 1914 Mexican Constitution in which the separation between churches and the Sta te, the laical education, the eight-hour working da y and other measures about land's ownership will be established.