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96 Int'l Lab. Rev. 590 (1967)
The Social Rights Enshrined in the Mexican Constitution of 1917

handle is hein.journals/intlr96 and id is 604 raw text is: The Social Rights Enshrined in the Mexican Constitution of 1917 Fernando YLLANES RAMOS 1 W HEN WE TALK about social rights today we think in the first instance of all the safeguards considered to be desirable to shield the individual from various forms of economic oppression. Unlike the individual freedoms , which only require a policy of abstention and restraint on the part of authority, social rights can be achieved only through constant, purposeful intervention by the State. It has rightly been said that individual freedoms thrive best when governments refrain from intervening in social relationships, while social rights are effective only when the State (within the legal framework) both directs and participates in the life of the nation subject to the rule of law, i.e. it is not the master but the servant. This distinction is the crux of the acute conflict that in modern times dominates the political, economic and social situation in every country. It involves the rejection of the liberal concept of government and adds a clear-cut social element to the political content of democracy. Since the First World War (1914-18) and the sweeping changes it set in motion it has been widely believed that the first political constitu- tions in which social rights were formally recognised were those of Russia and Germany. This new legal and constitutional approach is apparent in the Dec- laration of the Working and Exploited Masses , dated 23 January 1918, the Constitution of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, dated July of the same year, and the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of 6 July 1924. These three documents form a whole in their legal and political assumptions and in the structure built on them. To IMember of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office; principal legal adviser to the Confederation of Mexican Chambers of Industry; member of the Technical Council of the Mexican Institute of Social Security; former President of the Mexican Academy of Labour Law and Social Welfare; member of the Mexican Bar; Professor of Labour Law at the Free School of Law.

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