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A third movement . . . Finally gained the upper hand and drafted a new, revolutionary constitution in 1917. These so-called Constitutionalists, fairly typical of the nationalist core constituency throughout Latin America, may be called the winners of the Mexican Revolution. Their political heirs controlled the destiny of Mexico for the rest of the 1900s. The Constitution of 1917, still Mexico’s constitution, showed strong nationalist inspiration. Article 27 reclaimed for the nation all mineral rights, for instance, to oil, then in the hands of foreign companies. . . . The new constitution also sharply limited the privileges of foreigners and, as a legacy of earlier Mexican radicals, curbed the rights of the Catholic Church. The Mexican church now lost the rest of its once-vast wealth. It could no longer own real estate at all. . . . Finally, the Constitutionalists created a one-party system that would last, in various permutations, until the late twentieth century. This party was first called National, then Mexican, and finally Institutional. But for seven decades it remained a Revolutionary Party. Its official heroes were Madero, Zapata, and Villa, its official rhetoric full of revolutionary and nationalist images."