National Institutional Junta

{{Short description|Year-long legislative assembly of the First Mexican Empire}}

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| name = National Institutional Junta

| native_name = Junta Nacional Instituyente

| native_name_lang = Spanish

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| legislature = First Mexican Empire

| coa_pic = Sello de Gobierno del Primer Imperio Mexicano.svg

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| coa_alt = Seal of the government

| foundation = 2 November 1822

| disbanded = 6 March 1823

| preceded_by = Constituent Congress

| succeeded_by = Constituent Congress (reinstallment)

| house_type = Unicameral

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| leader1_type = President

| leader1 = Juan Francisco de Castañiza

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| members = 47

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| session_room = Juramento de Iturbide.jpg

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| meeting_place = San Pedro and San Pablo College,
Mexico City

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The National Institutional Junta ({{langx|es|Junta Nacional Instituyente}}) was a legislative assembly established on 2 November 1822 by order of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide with the purpose of replacing the congress which he had dissolved. Iturbide declared that until a new congress could be convened, popular representation would reside within this Junta. BENSON, NETTIE LEE. La diputación provincial y el federalismo mexicano. Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Históricos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 1994.

Its first session was held on 2 November 1822 in the San Pedro and San Pablo College, where Juan Francisco de Castañiza y González, Marquis of Castañiza, was named president of the same. Then, this Junta was in charge of several matters of immediate need and prepared a project for convening a new congress. The Junta ceased its work at the beginning of March 1823, when Agustín de Iturbide reinstated the first congress again.