Six constitutions over Texas : Texas' political identity, 1830-1900 /
"In his foreword to Six Constitutions Over Texas: Texas' Political Identity, 1830-1900, historian H. W. Brands describes the saga surrounding the development of the Texas state constitution as having "the sweep of a Russian novel ... populated by characters as colorful as any of Tolst...
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by H.W. Brands
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Constitutional Identity and Constitutional Moments
- Prologue. Mexican Texas and Its Constitutions, 1821-1836
- The Revolutionary Constitution of 1836
- Anglos, Indians, Germans, Mexicans, and Slaves. The Constitution of 1845: The Republic and Early Statehood, 1836-1854
- Rebel Constitution. Secession and Confederacy, 1854-1865
- Momentary Reversal. The Republican-Free Black Axis and Reconstruction
- The Constitution of 1876, the Turn Inward, and the Rise of the Judiciary
- The Birth of Conservative Modern Texas, 1891-1902
- Epilogue. Looking Backward
- Appendix: Theoretical Constitutional History.
