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Constitutions of Texas 1824-1876

Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836)

In the midst of the Texas Revolution, delegates to the 1836 Convention hastily drafted a constitution for the new Republic of Texas. The resulting constitution incorporated large sections of the United States Constitution along with Mexican law.

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"Constitution of Republic of Texas." Laws of the Republic of Texas, in Two Volumes. Houston: Printed at the Office of the Telegraph, 1838, vol. 1, pp. 9-25. Streeter 275. Download PDF

 

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