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Concord Register
Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
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Mexico's Congress decrees a Supreme Dictator with extensive powers amid political instability, reveals Iturbide's treacherous correspondence with Spain's Ferdinand VII, funds $40M in foreign debts, and notes arrivals of Constitutionalists at Tampico.
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The Congress of the Mexican Republic, after some experience of the insufficiency of their democratic form of government, recently appointed a committee to report a system combining more moral strength and energy. Accordingly, on the report of that committee, the Congress have decreed, that the Supreme Executive Council, consisting of three persons, should appoint one of their own body, to be "Supreme Dictator of the Mexican Republic;" who shall be authorized to nominate his Vice Dictator;—to command all the military force of the nation; to transfer the Government and Congress to any part of the country; to appoint all military officers; to borrow moneys and solicit aid, from foreign powers; to have an absolute veto on all the laws; to expel dangerous foreigners at pleasure; and to annul any existing laws which shall interfere with the execution of his functions.
Mexican papers contain a detected correspondence between the ex-emperor Iturbide and Ferdinand 7th, of a nature indicating Iturbide's devotion to Spain and treachery to Mexico. The Congress had acknowledged and funded foreign debts to the amount of forty millions of dollars. Several distinguished Constitutionalists had arrived at Tampico.
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supreme dictator appointed with broad powers including military command, foreign aid solicitation, veto authority; foreign debts funded at forty millions of dollars; constitutionalists arrived at tampico
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Mexican Congress, deeming democracy insufficient, decreed a Supreme Dictator from the three-person Executive Council with powers to command military, move government, appoint officers, borrow money, seek foreign aid, veto laws, expel foreigners, and annul interfering laws. Detected correspondence shows ex-emperor Iturbide's treachery to Spain's Ferdinand 7th. Congress funded $40M foreign debts; Constitutionalists reached Tampico.