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The Constitution of the State of Texas is the document that establishes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of Texas and enumerates the basic rights of the citizens of Texas. The current document was adopted on February 15, 1876, and is the seventh constitution in Texas history (including the Mexican constitution).
Some Texans believe that because it joined the United States as a country, the Texas state constitution includes the right to secede. [27] However, neither the ordinance of The Texas Annexation of 1845 [ 28 ] nor The Annexation of Texas Joint Resolution of Congress March 1, 1845 [ 29 ] included provisions giving Texas the right to secede.
Often modeled after the federal Constitution, they outline the structure of the state government and typically establish a bill of rights, an executive branch headed by a governor (and often one or more other officials, such as a lieutenant governor and state attorney general), a state legislature, and state courts, including a state supreme ...
The state of Texas confirmed its first case on February 13, 2020, and many of the state's largest cities recorded their first cases throughout March. As of late May 2021, there were 50,198 COVID-19 related deaths reported in that state. The death rate in Texas was 175 for every 100,000 people, while national COVID-19 death rate was 179 per 100,000.
His proposed amendments would make it easier for states to fight the 'tyranny' of the federal government and force Congress to have a balanced budget.
These are published in the official General and Special Laws of the State of Texas as "session laws". [1] [2] Most of these statutes are codified. [3] The Texas Constitution requires the Texas Legislature to revise, digest, and publish the laws of the state; however, it has never done so regularly. [4]
A codified constitution is a constitution that is contained in a single document, which is the single source of constitutional law in a state. An uncodified constitution is one that is not contained in a single document, but consists of several different sources, which may be written or unwritten.
The state's growing abolitionist Black and Hispanic populations led Texas to declare independence from the United States during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, starting a fifteen-year-long 'Texas War' ending in stalemate. The status of Texas as either a U.S. state or an independent republic remained ambiguous thereafter.