ABRAZO

D E

ACATEMPAN
THE UNION OF THE ROYALIST AND
INSURGENTS

PLAN DE IGUALA
1. establish the independence of mexico from the sapnish regime
2. support the regime of fernando VIIor, failing that, of any of the members of the Crown of Spain.
3. Impose the Catholic religion as the sole and absolute religion in Mexico.
4. Establish the union of all individuals, that is, impose social equality
between Americans, Spanish, Africans or Asians.
5. The new Spain is independent of the old and of any other power.
6. His government would be a moderate monarchy, with a peculiar and adaptable arrangement of the kingdom.
7. The throne would be offered to Emperor Ferdinand VII or some other prince of the reigning family. This article was modified by the treaty of
Córdoba, giving the opportunity to freely choose another person in the event of the non-acceptance of the monarch or his relatives.
8. The secular and regular clergy would retain all their privileges and preeminences.
9.All the inhabitants of the new Spain, without any distinction, were declared citizens, with the option of all employment, according to merits
and virtues.
10. People and their property would be respected and protected by the government.