Mexican Monarchists

The Conservative Party (Spanish: Partido Conservador) was a political faction in Mexico between 1830 and 1867, which became a loosely organized political party after 1849. They were opposed by, and fought several civil wars against, the Liberal Party. At various times and under different circumstances they were known as escoceses, centralists, royalists, imperialists, or conservatives, but they tended to be united by the theme of preserving colonial Spanish values, while not being opposed to the economic development and modernization of the nation. Their base of support was the army, the hacendados, and the Catholic Church. In the constitutional history of Mexico they supported the movement to have a centralized republic as opposed to a federal republic, and produced the Constitution.