Texas Constitution:Article I, Section 32: Difference between revisions

* ''Frasher v. State'', 3 Tex.Ct.App. 263, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/3_Tex.Ct.App._263.pdf#page=14 276-77] (1877) ("It is, then, conceded that the states can prohibit the intermarriage of the races, and it therefore . . . . Can it be truly said that the law is illegal because the race sought to be protected by 'the amendments' and 'the Civil Rights Bill' is not punished? Civilized society has the power of self-preservation, and, marriage being the foundation of such society, most of the states in which the negro forms an element of any note have enacted laws inhibiting intermarriage between the white and black races. And the courts, as a general rule, have sustained the constitutionality of such statutes.")