Constitutional Convention Of 1876
The Constitution of 1876 is considered the longest of all the state constitutions in the United States in its history.
The Constitutional Convention of 1875 drafted the Constitution of 1876 was drafted. The Constitution of 1876 is the constitution number six in which Texas has been governed since 1836 when the Mexican independence was accomplished. In 1874, a legislative committee stated an entire new constitution in order to change to the Constitution of 1869.
The document proposed had not been arranged by a convention and there was the possibility that the acceptance of the document could provoke the federal government, this is why the legislature rejected the proposal. But, the Governor Richard Coke advised that should accept the proposal, that I why the legislature submitted the interrogation of a constitutional convention …show more content…
It was also said that all independent and free men had equal rights, and that the writ of habeas corpus could not be suspended or unduly delayed for any reason.
The constitution encloses some requirements that are exclusively Texan, many of which are products of the state's history. We can say that some of them came from Mexican and Spanish influence. There are some sections that talk about land titles and land law in general, we can also find marital relations and adoption, judicial procedures, water and some other mineral rights.
Other some requirements can be accredited to the influences of Jacksonian agrarianism and frontier radicalism. These two influences predominated when Texas became a state and the both of them were extensively supported by the majority of immigrants to Texas and all of this happened before the Civil War. These two influences created some sections prohibiting banks and demanding a severer separation of church and the state than the required in other
The Constitutional Convention of 1875 drafted the Constitution of 1876 was drafted. The Constitution of 1876 is the constitution number six in which Texas has been governed since 1836 when the Mexican independence was accomplished. In 1874, a legislative committee stated an entire new constitution in order to change to the Constitution of 1869.
The document proposed had not been arranged by a convention and there was the possibility that the acceptance of the document could provoke the federal government, this is why the legislature rejected the proposal. But, the Governor Richard Coke advised that should accept the proposal, that I why the legislature submitted the interrogation of a constitutional convention …show more content…
It was also said that all independent and free men had equal rights, and that the writ of habeas corpus could not be suspended or unduly delayed for any reason.
The constitution encloses some requirements that are exclusively Texan, many of which are products of the state's history. We can say that some of them came from Mexican and Spanish influence. There are some sections that talk about land titles and land law in general, we can also find marital relations and adoption, judicial procedures, water and some other mineral rights.
Other some requirements can be accredited to the influences of Jacksonian agrarianism and frontier radicalism. These two influences predominated when Texas became a state and the both of them were extensively supported by the majority of immigrants to Texas and all of this happened before the Civil War. These two influences created some sections prohibiting banks and demanding a severer separation of church and the state than the required in other