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Manuel Crescencio Rejón
Manuel Crescencio Rejón was a Mexican jurist and politician from Yucatán. He drafted much of Yucatán's constitution of 1841, which introduced the writ of amparo, a citizen's legal protection against unconstitutional acts by the authorities. The amparo was later adopted in Mexico's federal law and became a model in Latin American constitutional law.
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