And this was but the beginning of the revolution from above, which over the next two years would extend to the reform of civil and criminal law, elimination of the “feudalistic” family system that had legally rendered women inferior, extension of the right to vote to women, decentralization of the police, enactment of a progressive law governing working conditions, revision of both the structure and the curriculum of the education system, renovation of the electoral system, and promotion of greater local autonomy vis-á-vis the central government.
