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 and are granted only to Mexican citizens or foreigners agreeing to act as citizens in regard to such grants. No foreigner is to acquire direct ownership of lands situated within 100 kilometers of the border or 50 kilometers of the ocean. All contracts and concessions made by former governments since 1876 which have resulted in monopoly may be annulled by the executive. (Art. 27) Legislation is to be enacted providing the 8-hour day, minimum wage, profit sharing, three months' wages in case of unjust dismissal of worker and a long list of other protective labor measures. Social insurance and co-operative housing are to be encouraged. (Art. 123.)

Actual accomplishment in the working out of the ideals expressed in the constitution include a beginning in the distribution of the great estates, limited government control of the exploitation of mineral resources; phenomenal growth in the organization of the working classes; broadened opportunity for middle class development; restoration of constitutional government; a decided check upon the returning power of the church; considerable increase in educational facilities.

On the other hand, results that hamper constructive development, are a large increase in the size of the army and a revival of its feudal characteristics, an increase in the national debt and foreign bankers' hold upon the resources of the country, a falling off in agricultural production due to unsettled conditions and uncertainty of titles.

Constitutional provisions for distribution of the land have been moderately interpreted in various federal and state laws administered by agrarian commissions. Actual distribution has been carried out quite fully in the chief agrarian revolutionary cen-