as determined to see them enforced. In fact, Calles would add a new provision to the Constitution upon taking office. This decree was signed in 1926 and known as The Law for Reforming the Penal Code but was also known as the Calles Law: “Priests were fined 500 pesos (about $250 at the time) for wearing clerical garb and could be imprisoned five years for criticizing the government” (Tuck 2). The harsh enforcement of constitutional articles and laws by Calles would emit a series of challenges from the clergy and the band of rebels known as the Cristeros.
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