Mexico

Administration of justice. – Justice was administered by a hierarchy of officials presided over by the cihuacoatl, senior criminal judge, belonging to the tlalocán, having civil and criminal jurisdiction over all the people; if the magistrates failed to fulfill their

Classes and status. – The Mexicans, at the beginning of their wanderings, appear to us divided into seven clans, perhaps governed by totemic principles, each of which is independent with its own head and its own protector god. But already