Publications about Texas Constitutional HistoryCompiled by Mike Widener, Head of Special Collections,
Cornyn, John. "The Roots of the Texas Constitution: Settlement to Statehood." TEXAS TECH LAW REVIEW 26:4 (1995), 1089-1194. A thorough review of Texas constitutions up to and including the 1845 Constitution, as well as the social, political and legal contexts. Appendix 1 (p. 1195-1196) lists the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1845, and Appendix 2 (p. 1197-1218) is the Constitution of 1845. Ericson, Joe E. "Origins of the Texas Bill of Rights." SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 62 (Apr. 1959), 457-466. Gruben, Karl T. & James E. Hambleton. A REFERENCE GUIDE TO TEXAS LAW AND LEGAL HISTORY: SOURCES AND DOCUMENTATION. 2nd ed. Austin: Butterworth Legal Pub., 1987. May, Janice C. THE TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION: A REFERENCE GUIDE. Reference Guides to the State Constitutions of the United States; no. 26. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. Foreword by Thomas R. Phillips. "Constitutional and political history from the 1813 Texas Constitution under Spanish rule and the 1827 Coahuila-Texas Constitution under Mexican rule through the Constitution of 1876 and its amendments. An analytic commentary on the current constitution, with amendments, article-by-article." -- Lawbook Exchange, Oct. 1999 Short List. Stewart, Frank Mann, & Joseph L. Clark. THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS. Revised ed. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1936. Williams, F. A. "History of the Texas Judicial Machine and Its Growth." TEXAS LAW REVIEW 5:2 (Feb. 1927), 174-182. Part of a pair of articles entitled "Suggestions for Improving Court Procedure in Texas", it reviews the judicial powers set out in the Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836), the state constitutions of 1845, 1861, 1866, 1869, and 1876, and the 1891 amendments to the 1876 constitution. Galeana, Patricia, comp. MÉXICO Y SUS CONSTITUCIONES. México: Archivo General de la Nación, 1999. Guedea, Virginia. "The Constitution of 1824 and the Formation of the Mexican State." In THE ORIGINS OF MEXICAN NATIONAL POLITICS, 1808-1847 (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 1997). "Mexican Constitution of 1824." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/ngc2.html Puertas Gómez, Gerardo Federico José. PENSAMIENTO POLÍTICO-CONSTITUCIONAL MEXICANO: SIGLO XIX. Monterrey, N.L., México: Facultad Libre de Derecho, 1990. Rabasa, Emilio O. HISTORIA DE LAS CONSTITUCIONES MEXICANAS. 2nd ed. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, 1994. Rabasa, Emilio O. EL PENSAMIENTO POLÍTICO DEL CONSTITUYENTE DE 1824. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1986. Sayeg Helú, Jorge INTRODUCCIÓN A LA HISTORIA CONSTITUCIONAL DE MÉXICO. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1978. Signet, William D. "A Brief Constitutional History." In MEXICAN LAW LIBRARY (St. Paul: West Publishing, 1997), vol. 1, ix-xvi. Whatley, William Archibald. THE FORMATION OF THE MEXICAN CONSTITUTION OF 1824. M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1921. "Constitution of the State of Coahuila & Texas, 1827." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. Coahuila (Mexico : State). COAHUILA -- 150 AÑOS DE VIDA CONSTITUCIONAL. Saltillo, Coahuila: Ediciones Nueva Imagen, 1977. "Constitution of the Proposed Mexican State of Texas, 1833." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. Barker, Eugene C. "Declaration of Causes for Taking Up Arms against Mexico." SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 15 (Jan. 1912), 173-185. "Declaration of November 7, 1835." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. "Ordinances, Provisional Government of Texas, 1835." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. Kemp, Louis Wiltz. THE SIGNERS OF THE TEXAS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Salado, Tex.: Anson Jones, 1944; reprinted 1959. "Texas Declaration of Independence." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. Shuffler, R. Henderson. "The Ark of the Covenant of the Texas Declaration of Independence." SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 65 (July 1961), 87-100. Shuffler, R. Henderson. "The Signing of Texas' Declaration of Independence: Myth and Record." SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 65 (Jan. 1962), 310-332. Day, James M. "The Declaration of Texas Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, a Pamphlet." Foreword to CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS: TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, MADE IN CONVENTION, MARCH 2, 1836 (Glorieta, N.M.: Rio Grande Press, 1966). Day's foreword to the facsimile reprint of the first printing of the Constitution of the Republic of Texas (Streeter 1243) details the publication hisory of the Constitution and the Texas Declaration of Independence. Richardson, Rupert N. "Framing the Constitution of the Republic of Texas." SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 31 (Jan. 1928), 191-220. "Constitution of the Republic of Texas, 1836." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. "Constitution of the State of Texas, 1845." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. Middleton, Annie. "The Texas Convention of 1845." SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 25 (July 1921), 26-62. Moussalli, Stephanie D. "Choosing Capitals in Ante-Bellum Southern Frontier Constitutions." SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 101:1 (July 1997), 59-75. Paxson, Frederic L. "The Constitution of Texas, 1845." SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 18 (Apr. 1915), 386-398. Buenger, Walter L. SECESSION AND THE UNION IN TEXAS. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. "Constitution of the State of Texas, 1861." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. Sandbo, Anna Irene. "The First Session of the Secession Convention of Texas." SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 18 (Oct. 1914), 162-194. "Constitution of the State of Texas, 1866." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. McGraw, John Conger. THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION OF 1866. Thesis, Texas Technological College, [196?]. Ramsdell, Charles W. RECONSTRUCTION IN TEXAS. New York: Columbia University Press, 1910; reprinted, Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1970. Ramsdell, Charles W. RECONSTRUCTION IN TEXAS. New York: Columbia University Press, 1910; reprinted, Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1970. See Ch. 9, "The Reconstruction Convention of 1868-1869." "Constitution of the State of Texas, 1869." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. Ramsdell, Charles W. RECONSTRUCTION IN TEXAS. New York: Columbia University Press, 1910; reprinted, Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1970. Ranney, Joseph A. "A Fool's Errand? Legal Legacies of Reconstruction in Two Southern States." TEXAS WESLEYAN LAW REVIEW 9:1 (Fall 2002), 1-58. Sandlin, Betty Jeffus. THE TEXAS CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1868-1869. Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Tech University, 1970. Allen, John. A NEW BEGINNING: TWO CONSTITUTIONS -- 1875 AND 1974. [Austin, Tex.:]: The author, [1974]. Angell, Robert H. A COMPILATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE 1998 TEXAS CONSTITUTION AND THE ORIGINAL 1876 TEXT. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. "Angell's book ... presents a compiled version in different fonts so that the reader can compare the original to the current version. In the introduction, the author analyzes the historic evolution of the document, starting with its Mexican and Republican formulations." -- SWHQ 102:1 (July 1998), 100. Calkins, Howard A. "The Need for Constitutional Revision in Texas." TEXAS LAW REVIEW 21:5 (May 1943), 479-489. Discusses the adoption of the 1876 constitution and its subsequent amendments. "Constitution of the State of Texas, 1876." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. Ericson, Joe E. "The Delegates to the Convention of 1875: A Reappraisal." SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 67 (July 1963), 22-27. Ericson, Joe E. AN INQUIRY INTO THE SOURCES OF THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION. Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Tech University, 1957. Hammons, Anne. WEST TEXAS AND THE STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1875. M.A. thesis, Texas Technological College, 1933. Jackson, Gary D., & Bobby L. Cummings. "A History of the Constitutionality of Local Laws in Texas." BAYLOR LAW REVIEW 13 (Winter 1961), 37-61. Mauer, John Walker. SOUTHERN STATE CONSTITUTIONS IN THE 1870S: A CASE STUDY OF TEXAS. Ph.D. dissertation, Rice University, 1983. Mauer, John Walker. "State Constitutions in a Time of Crisis: The Case of the Texas Constitution of 1876." TEXAS LAW REVIEW 68:7 (June 1990), 1615-1647. "This Paper focuses primarily on the enactment of post-Reconstruction constitutions in Texas and the South, [and] how that process fits into the broader patterns of American state constitutional construction in the 1870s." - p. 1616. McKay, Seth Shepard. SEVEN DECADES OF THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION OF 1876. [Lubbock, Tex., 1942]. Revision of: MAKING THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION OF 1876 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1924). Myres, Samuel D. "Mysticism, Realism, and the Texas Constitution of 1876." SOUTHWESTERN POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 9:2 (Sept. 1928), 166-184. Ponton, Arvel, III. "Sources of Liberty in the Texas Bill of Rights. " ST. MARY'S LAW JOURNAL 20:1 (Summer 1988), 93-120 "Proposed Constitution of the State of Texas, 1874." HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE. Ranney, Joseph A. "A Fool's Errand? Legal Legacies of Reconstruction in Two Southern States." TEXAS WESLEYAN LAW REVIEW 9:1 (Fall 2002), 1-58. Rowland, Walton Chapman. THE AMENDMENT OF THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION, 1876-1948. M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1948. Thomas, A.J. Jr., & Ann Van Wynen Thomas. "The Texas Constitution of 1876." TEXAS LAW REVIEW 35:7 (Oct. 1957), 9-7-918. |