What explains the large number of amendments to the current Texas Constitution? How does Texas differ from other states in this regard?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1. Explain how the distrust of government under Reconstruction and the Edmund Davis administration influenced the framers of the 1876 constitution to write more restrictive language into the constitution.
2. Explain how the restrictive, statutory nature of the constitution does not allow enough flexibility for it to adapt to changing circumstances without being amended. That is, the Texas Constitution is not a "living constitution."
3. Note that the Texas Constitution is fairly easy to amend.
4. Note that the Texas Constitution has been amended on a larger basis when compared with most of the other state constitutions, but that some state constitutions have been amended even more often.
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