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The Mexican Revolution began on November 20, 1910 as an attempt to overthrow the rule of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz, who had been in power since 1877. Diaz stepped down and submitted to exile in 1911.
The Mexican Constitution of 1917, written after the Mexican Revolution is the basis of all Mexican law - the Magna Carta. It contains reforms that addressed the principal causes of the Mexican Revolution - labor abuses, land expropriated from farmers and villages, natural resources exploited by foreign companies, etc.