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leaders, headed by Venustiano Carranza, hold that the avowed purposes of the revolutionary movement, namely to secure for the masses of the Mexican people better economic and social conditions, must be incorporated into the organic law and it is their hope that thereby the country will be protected against a possible reactionary movement. To what extent these hopes will be realised, the future alone can determine.
The Academy is under obligation to Mr. H. N. Branch for his admirable translation of the Constitution of 1917.
L. S. Rowe.
University of Pennsylvania
May, 1917.
