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Baitenmann, Helga
Matters of Justice, 05/2020Book Chapter
At the Constitutional Convention called by Carranza in Querétaro (20 November 1916 to 31 January 1917), the delegates in charge of writing article 27 of the 1917 Constitution incorporated the 6 January 1915 law into its provisions. Therefore, when Congress elected a new Supreme Court in 1917, thereby reopening amparo proceedings nationwide, the cna (now under the Secretaría de Agricultura y Fomento, or Ministry of Agriculture and Development) had already assumed authority over restitution claims and land expropriations for dotaciones. Despite having for many decades protected their authority over contentious property matters, the justices of the reinstated Supreme Court fully
