The National Institutional Junta (Spanish: Junta Nacional Instituyente) was the assembly created in Mexico on 2 November 1822 by order of Agustín de Iturbide composed of 47 members of Congress dissolved with the intention of occupying the Legislative Power instead of the Congress of 1822 extended according to the decree of 31 October 1822 where Iturbide declared that until a new congress could be convened, the national representation would fall to this Junta.