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As William J. Chriss, author of “Six Constitutions Over Texas, Texas’ Political Identity, 1830-1900” (Texas A&M University Press) notes in his sweeping look at the six documents that formed ...
Texas constitutional conventions included 1861, 1866, 1868–69, and 1875. [ 1 ] The constitution is the second-longest state constitution in the United States (exceeded only by the Constitution of Alabama , even with the latter being recompiled as a new document in 2022) and is also the third-most amended state constitution (only the Alabama ...
Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office. Some 19th-century U.S. presidents who wrote autobiographies are James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant, though Grant's autobiography is about his time as general during the U.S. Civil War and ...
State constitutions are all longer than 8,000 words because they are more detailed regarding the day-to-day relationships between government and the people. The shortest is the Constitution of Vermont, adopted in 1793 and currently 8,295 words long. The longest was Alabama 's sixth constitution, ratified in 1901, about 345,000 words long, but ...
Michael Lind, Made In Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics (2002), ISBN 0-465-04121-3; Lindsay, James M. "George W. Bush, Barack Obama and the future of US global leadership." International Affairs 87.4 (2011): 765-779 online. McAdams, Dan P. (2011). George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological ...
The first half of the book covers Trump's career before his candidacy for the presidency. Sean Wilentz observes that the book "places special emphasis on Trump's ascent in a late 1970s and 1980s New York demimonde of hustlers, mobsters, political bosses, compliant prosecutors and tabloid scandalmongers."
California v. Texas, 593 U.S. 659 (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case that dealt with the constitutionality of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), colloquially known as Obamacare. It was the third such challenge to the ACA seen by the Supreme Court since its enactment.
A Statesman review of free speech policies at ACC and six Texas universities found some institutions have added additional speech limitations as they updated their policies. Austin Community College