ABSTRACT
The capacity of Mexico City to establish its own constitution is established in Article 122 of the national constitution. This article is as extensive as Article 116. It provides very detailed rules on how the Constitution of Mexico City must organize the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government; and how it must design different kinds of agencies, for example autonomous constitutional agencies in charge of guaranteeing the right to transparency and access to public information; or in charge of protecting human rights. All subnational constitutions in Mexico provide for a mechanism of reform, but this mechanism varies from one state to another. The subnational constitutions of each state are concentrated in one document. The Supreme Court of Mexico has stated that subnational constitutions can establish mechanisms to control legislative omissions by subnational legislatures.
