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  2. Constitution of Texas - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Congress of the Republic of Texas - Wikipedia

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    On July 23, 1836, interim President David G. Burnet, pursuant to the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, ordered that an election for Congress take place in Columbia on the first Monday in September 1836. As part of the same proclamation, Burnet mandated that the 1st Congress of the Republic of Texas convene on October 3, 1836, also at ...

  4. Constitution of the Republic of Texas - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] A Texas convention debated the annexation offer and almost unanimously passed an ordinance assenting to it on July 4, 1845. [11] The convention debated until August 28 and adopted the Constitution of the State of Texas on August 27. [10] The citizens of Texas approved an annexation ordinance and a new constitution on October 13.

  5. Why all federal and state officials must swear an oath to ...

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    Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general.. We finished our study of ...

  6. Government of Texas - Wikipedia

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    In addition to cities and counties, Texas has numerous special districts. As with municipal elections in Texas, board members or trustees are elected on a nonpartisan basis or may be appointed. The most common is the independent school district, which (with one exception) has a board of trustees that is independent of any other governing ...

  7. Voters approve all 8 amendments to Texas Constitution - AOL

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    Already amended 507 times, the Texas Constitution is one of the longest such documents in the nation.

  8. Constitutions show government’s sometimes heavy hand in ...

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    In 1869, as part of the state’s post-Civil War effort to rejoin the Union, writers of a Texas constitution created the Bureau of Immigration, an agency whose job it was to sponsor and fund a new ...

  9. Texas Legislature - Wikipedia

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    Stanley K. Young, Texas Legislative Handbook (1973). Univ. of Tex., The Legislative Branch in Texas Politics, (last accessed Oct. 8, 2006) (stating that "The Texas Legislature is the most powerful of the three main branches of government[,]" primarily because it is "less weak than the other branches"). See also: Texas Government Newsletter