What is in the Texas Constitution?
Keeping this in view, what does the Texas Constitution say?
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.
Simply so, what were the significant parts of the Texas Constitution?
The Republic of Texas Constitution, 1836 Its features included separation of powers into three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial—with a system of checks and balances. It created a bicameral legislature, with a House of Representatives and a Senate.
In many ways, the U.S. and Texas Constitutions are similar documents. In the U.S. Constitution the states are subordinate to the federal government, and in the Texas Constitution the counties are subordinate to the state government. But beyond these general features, the two constitutions could not be more different.