ABSTRACT
The Constituent Assembly was formed during the Mexican Revolution with an eye toward updating the country’s constitution. Pastor Rouaix, a civil engineer and trusted protege of Venustiano Carranza, head of the Constitutionalist Revolution in Mexico, provided an interesting report on the development of the reforms. The pre-constitutional Labor Laws of Cándido Aguilar in Veracruz emerged through this legislative project, which was drafted by Jose Macias on October 19, 1914, and created a civil administration board for labor disputes. Timothy James, perhaps following the warnings of Bassols himself, explains how many of the social reforms promulgated in the Constitution of 1917 required legislation to implement them before they could be executed. The social constitutionalism inaugurated by the political generation of Pastor Rouaix and the Constituent Assembly of Queretaro had the foresight to realize the importance of the protection of social guarantees in the context of human rights.
