The Tyranny of OpinionIn the mid to late nineteenth century, as Mexico emerged out of decades of civil war and foreign invasion, a modern notion of honorof ones reputation and self worthbecame the keystone in the construction of public culture. Mexicans gave great symbolic, social, and material value to honor. Only honorable men could speak in the name of the public. Honor earned these men, and a few women, support and credit, and gave civilian politicians a claim to