El juicio de amparo — a rights remedy wider than habeas corpus

The Mexican constitutional action that lets any inhabitant ask a federal judge to protect any right the constitution grants — not only personal liberty — against a law or an act of any authority, and that pays for that breadth with a rule its own drafters wrote in: the judgment protects the complainant and says nothing about the law. Read from the 1881 essay by the president of the Mexican Supreme Court and from the text of the 1857 constitution reprinted in its appendix.