Between the past and the present: historical evolution of the ius suffragii and the ius honorum, from Roman law to Mexican law

Abstract

In the exercise of the profession lawyers see that the current law is an evolution from the law of the XII Tables to the Corpus iuris civilis, that is, that Roman law is immersed in the current legislation and we are not the only ones, in fact, a specialist, Dr. Nelly Dora Louzan de Solimano coordinated a series of studies under the title The Roman Civil Procedure Its validity in the Argentine Law, making a parallel between both. In the same vein Maria Elisa Camacho in relation to the assignment of Credits in his work "Assignment of credits: from Roman law to modern merchant traffic". After an exhaustive search of bibliography, we have not located works where the right to vote is compared in the Roman legislation, with equal faculty in the current Mexican legal system, consequently in the present work we intend to make this comparison, analyzing in the first place the Roman law and secondly, the Mexican, in order to highlight in the conclusions, the similarities that could exist beyond the divergences of the diverse historical contextuality..