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Article: New Mexico independent adjudication.(State Constitutional Commentary)
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- Albany Law Review
- Article date:
- August 6, 1998
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I. INTRODUCTION
The New Mexico Supreme Court has been called upon a number of times in the last four or five years to interpret its state constitution. The New Mexico Constitution varies in a number of respects from the United States Constitution, both in wording, phrasing, and the number and nature of the rights accorded the people of New Mexico.(1) The New Mexico Bill of Rights has twenty-four separate provisions not present in the United States Constitution, including an Equal Rights Amendment and a Victim's Rights Amendment.(2)
New Mexico's right to bear arms provision is considerably different from the provision in the Federal Constitution. The ...