Main Points and Features of Texas Constitution and Texas State

The State of Texas constitution is a document that describes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. State of Texas. The current document took effect on February 15, 1876, and is the eighth constitution in Texas history. Also including the Mexican constitution. The previous six was adopted in 1827, while Texas was still part of Mexico. That was the before the Alamo. In 1836 the documents was adopted as the Republic of Texas and 1845, 1861, 1866 and 1869.

The state of Texas had a lot of different characteristics. The constitution was overly written and long. It was extremely detailed. The Americans who wrote the constitution after the United States won the territory from Mexico, tried to put long and hard hours into the constitution. The Americans that wrote it put entirely too much time into it. From the details of what was written the constitution was confusing to the citizens of the state and its organization. Also, in my opinion it was poorly written.

The Texas Constitution had approximately twenty thousand and five hundred words in it before any amendments were written. It is the second longest in today’s society, out of fifty states. A large number of amendments made the constitution more practical to add to or delete from the relevant article or section. Rather than just make more of the sentences more simplified, instead of destroying the whole thing and coming up with another constitution also. Amendments aimed at undoing a provision of the Texas Constitution simply specify that section's removal. The amendments results of the Texas Constitution’s original provisions, combined with later additions and deletions in a ridicule of words was an abundant action. Intensifying the confusion, there were several pairs of the subsections with the same number on different pages. Which made nonsense in other words, it was idiocy.

The level of its detail enumerating the amendments expanding upon to fourteen page altogether is a huge reason why in my opinion the constitution is too long. Other things like administration of water boards, bond sales, elections for sheriff, sale of school lands, railroad operation, and etc. Those are some of the things that I feel should be withdrawn from the constitution because they sound more likely to be written into a peculiar county’s handbook, which is more suitable for the situation.

By the way that the constitution is written an imprudent person would be able to tell the constitution was written within nonsensical intentions. In my eyes the absurd statements written in the constitution was not overlooked. The Americans that wrote the constitution did not pay anyone to look over what they had written. They were unwilling to spend the public’s money to revise the documents.

The Texas Constitution separated into seventeen articles. Through the entire constitution the executive department category in the document is generally the best part of the Texas constitution. It talks about the separate powers within the branches. The executive branch is describe as the strongest in the earliest constitutions.

The state of Texas legislation and its professionalism considered as a hybrid state. Hybrid meaning a grey legislation state. There are three types of legislations green, grey, and gold. The green is a type in which is considered as full time, well paid and with a large staff. While gold is part time, low pay and small staff. Then you have the grey legislation like the state of Texas it is a mixture between them both. Legislatures in states typically like this spend more than two-thirds of a full time job being legislators. Even though they make more than a gold state, it still is not enough to make a comfortable living. A lot of states in popular demands are in the middle. The legislators in the state of Texas usually spend up to seventy percent of their time on the job. Making a massive amount of forty-five thousand dollars a year, with a staff close to four hundred and eighty people on staff.

In the Texas legislation there are sixty three out of one and eighty one seats, thirty one senators and one hundred and fifty representatives held in the Democrat house and only seven will be white, while only eight will be white in the republican house out of one hundred and eighteen. The white to black ratio have dropped dramatically over the last ten years. Hispanics are the second largest group in the state of Texas house. Then there are the Asians in which they only make up two percent. The number of white in the house has declined in the state of Texas rapidly. The removal of legal restrictions on legal session’s results in greater levels with professionalism could be a one of a couple of things that could be the reason for the decline. Also other states that are around can affect the states that are close to one another.

Women have started to have a bigger influence in the house also. There are twenty nine women legislators in the house/ assembly. While there are seven number of women legislators in the senate. All together there are thirty six women legislators in the state of Texas. Women all together make up a heaping nineteen point nine percent as legislators.

Being the governor of a huge state like Texas comes with a lot of responsibility. Some of the powers a governor holds is signing or vetoing bills passed by the Legislature. Serve as commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. While convening special sessions of the Legislature for specific purposes. Governors also deliver a report on the condition of the state to the Legislature at the beginning of each regular session. Estimating of the amounts of money required to raise by taxation. Then accounting for all public monies received and paid out by him and recommending a budget for the next two years. But I feel like the hardest duty for the governor is granting reprieves and commutations of punishment and pardons upon the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles and revoking conditional pardons. The governor also appoints Texans to a wide range of advisory bodies and task forces that assist him with specific issues. The governor Greg Abbot does some of the constitutional and statutory duties.

The Legislator powers split up because of so many duties, so there is not too much for just one governor to handle. The executive officers of the state are a few of the people that divided the job up to help accomplish the governor. Some of their duties and functions are managing the municipal finances. (This responsibility includes assessing, budgeting, money management, payroll and purchasing supervision, record keeping, asset maintenance, and so on.) Also management of personal and property while protecting the health, welfare, and safety of the state’s residents.

The great state of Texas has a great court system. It starts with a basic structure of the present court system of Texas, established in 1891 with the help of the constitutional amendment. There were almost four thousand officials elected in 2014 in judicial positions. In addition, there were approximately one hundred and forty associate judges appointed to serve in district, county-level, child support courts, and child protection. As well as numerous magistrates, masters, referees and other officers supporting the judiciary.

With three hundred and fifteen people retired and former judges were also eligible to serve again. In the state of Texas the Texas constitution provides for a county court in each county overseen by a judge. The Legislature has established statutory county courts, generally designated as county courts at law or statutory probate courts, in the more populous counties to aid the Constitutional county court with its judicial functions. By statute, the Legislature has created municipal courts in each incorporated city in the state. The state of Texas has a very complex court room system. With the third largest amount of officials being elected out of all the states in the United States the state of Texas has the largest amount of per capital. With so many polls and taxes put on everything the state of Texas has a great amount of things going for its state.

Separation of powers goes back in time to over one hundred years. In separation of powers the checks and balance system is set up, with the legislation branch, executive branch, and judicial branch. The checks and balance weakens the branches so that not one of the branches is stronger than the other. Everyone in the state favors the Texas constitutional law. Separation of power in the Texas government plays a big role. The Texas court rooms like many other plays have had issues with the policies for separation of powers. Separation of power has two particular principle purposes. One is to attempt to stop excessive concentration of any particular officer. Then next is to provide equality between branches.

The structure of a particular agency is made weak by separation of powers by the Texas Constitution. Some ties to the particular strategy make some weaker than others. The state of Texas legislative committee exercises less oversighting than on a federal level. In the Texas government the governor has almost two agencies he is in charge of. The government can only remove people in the legislation branch only with the advice and consent from a senate. The governor also has constitutional power in executing the law, as also with the state’s budget. In all together there are pros and cons of having the separate powers. The functional structure of the Supreme Court in Texas is an advantage. And then amongst all branch the executive branch lacks inherit powers, unlike the other two.

Interest groups are a huge role in the state of Texas and its legislation system. There are a lot of interest groups in the state of Texas. A lot of things like size, resources and policy focus play a part in the interest groups. Many groups are made and destroyed in single elections. Many interest groups are long traditional interest groups that have been there as long as forty years. Many interest groups tend to not confuse their objectives with the government and are non-governmental. They focus on persuading the public.

The great state of Texas is a dominate/complementary state. Which means Dominant/Complementary states interest group influence is strong but limited by the influence of other political factors such as party organizations, governmental institutions, or the electorate. Interest groups balance one another out by competing in resources and argument on main policy decisions. Many people believe interest groups create stable political environments that allow interest groups to be represented by the government.

Interest groups consist of many types. Two types are the public interest groups and the private interest groups. Private interest groups sometimes called special interest groups. Interest groups form from public organizations getting involved with sometime of government fund then choose to option out. To be an interest groups they have to organize individuals with similar interests inform the public and elected officials, organize electoral competition, organize government, link the state and local political system to the national political system.

Interest groups are involved with a lot of support and being into most elections. Most people wonder how they do it. Well the answer is lobbying, petitions and letter writing, campaigns, public demonstrations, media campaigns, attending public meetings, legal action, and illegal action. A few interest groups that are well known are Texas NAACP, Texas Parent PAC and Texas Public Employees Association just to name a few. While the top interest groups giving to government are the retired and lawyers. With Ted Cruz being the top receipt.

Party competition is a huge reason why the degree of votes have taken shockingly upraise. This is a huge reason why voters are required to have I.D. in some states. In some states the voters have been accused of casting to many votes for one political candidate. But what has changed is the deep partisan polarization over restrictive election laws whose passage speaks to the increasingly competitive and yet volatile electoral landscape of American politics. Party competitions have become involved with the law over many of years following the recent elections.

“The apparently self-evident role of political parties in partisan competition contrasts rather strikingly with the ambivalent treatment given to political parties in the law. The major cases addressing the institutional prerogatives of political parties, or at least of the major political parties, alternatively treat them as the political equivalent of common carriers subject to ordinary regulatory oversight, or as rights-bearing entities entitled to protection from state incursion.” This article means that over the past years the elections have become more than ordinary. The major case of political parties wants the law to treat them like everyone else. A lot of the political parties are treated different because of their names and the income they bring in or have.

Per Capita income plays a remarkable role in elections as well as the legislation branch. Last year, in the state of Texas the per capita income was twenty six thousand and nineteen dollars. While the retail per capita was thirteen thousand and six one dollars. Out of the whole United States the per capita was twenty eight thousand and fifty seven dollars alone. I can say the state of Texas was all most the same as the United States. It’s safe to say as time has increased the per capita has increased dramatically. From 1980 it started out as 9,439, and then in 1990 it jumped up dramatically to 16,747. While in 1995 to the 2000’s per capita went up by six thousand from 21,000 to 27,000.

Urbanization is the process of becoming urban. Living together in villages, towns, and cities is a natural condition of human life that has obtained since the beginning of civilization. The urbanization of Texas is mainly European culture from the European settlement. The Indian contribution is slight, since there is little in modern Texas cities that can be traced to Indian origins except perhaps genetic matter in segments of the population. Also Indians were the main people to run the state of Texas in the beginning. The word Texas, of course, was adopted by the Spanish from a Caddo Indian word for "friend."

The Spanish people later taking over the great state of Texas.