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23 wrz 2024 · In this publication, the authors provide information regarding the origins, historical development, and contemporary meaning of each section of the Texas Constitution. The authors also add interpretive comments.
This project, an annotated and comparative analysis of the Texas Constitution, was designed to be a research tool for the delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION PREAMBLE Humbly invoking the blessings of Almighty God, the people of the State of Texas, do ordain and establish this Constitution. ARTICLE 1. BILL OF RIGHTS That the general, great and essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and established, we declare: Sec. 1. FREEDOM AND SOVEREIGNTY OF STATE.
In the Texas Bill of Rights, the sections, with some exceptions, fall in three main categories: (1) statements of political theory regarding the nature of government and its relationship to the governed or to the federal government; (2) enunciations of substantive rights to liberty and property; and (3) enumeration of procedural rights which are...
Constitution of Texas (2022) at Wikisource. 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 ...
ARTICLE 1. BILL OF RIGHTS. Sec. 1. FREEDOM AND SOVEREIGNTY OF STATE. Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.
The powers of the Government of the State of Texas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit: those
