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Texas Constitution:Article III, Section 2 (view source)
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Note that in 1965 an amendment to this section increasing the size of the Senate to thirty-nine members was defeated with roughly 61% voting against the [https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/sessionLaws/59-0/SJR_44.pdf amendment]. | Note that in 1965 an amendment to this section increasing the size of the Senate to thirty-nine members was defeated with roughly 61% voting against the [https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/sessionLaws/59-0/SJR_44.pdf amendment]. | ||
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* ''Ferguson v. Wilcox'', 28 S.W.2d 526, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/028_SW2_526.pdf#page=9 534] (Tex. 1930) ("[T]he Senate in the trial and conviction of relator acted as a court, and not as a part of the Legislature. Those powers were given to it expressly by the Constitution. Its judgment of removal and disqualification was the judgment of a court. Constitution, art. 15, §§ 3 and 4; Ferguson v. Maddox, supra; Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168 []; Beall v. Beall, 8 Ga. 210, 228. By the plain provisions of article 2, § 1, no other department could exercise any power properly attached to it, and no other power, without an express provision of the Constitution authorizing it, could render its judgment of disqualification nugatory.") | * ''Ferguson v. Wilcox'', 28 S.W.2d 526, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/028_SW2_526.pdf#page=9 534] (Tex. 1930) ("[T]he Senate in the trial and conviction of relator acted as a court, and not as a part of the Legislature. Those powers were given to it expressly by the Constitution. Its judgment of removal and disqualification was the judgment of a court. Constitution, art. 15, §§ 3 and 4; Ferguson v. Maddox, supra; Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168 []; Beall v. Beall, 8 Ga. 210, 228. By the plain provisions of article 2, § 1, no other department could exercise any power properly attached to it, and no other power, without an express provision of the Constitution authorizing it, could render its judgment of disqualification nugatory.") | ||
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