Texas Constitution:Article X, Section 2: Difference between revisions

* ''City of Denison v. Municipal Gas Co.'', 3 S.W.2d 794, 797 (Tex. 1928) ("In view of the wording of section 2, art. 10, the amendment definitely provided a constitutional grant and authority for these powers to be exercised by a body or agency other than the Legislature itself, and solved the vexing question . . ., that the Legislature was required to do and perform these duties by its own actions. The fact that it makes certain that means and agencies of government with powers to fix and regulate rail rates and prevent abuses, etc., may be created by law, does not create a body over which the jurisdiction of the lawmaking body is limited to the making of rates and matters pertaining to railroads.")

* ''Herring v. Hous. Nat’l Exch. Bank'', 253 S.W. 813, 816 (Tex. 1923) ("Our Texas Railroad Commission was a pioneer in this field of governmental activity. It exercises governmental functions pertaining, perhaps, to each or all of the three divisions of government. In its rate-making powers it invaded the legislative prerogatives; its powers of adjusting rates were at least quasi judicial; and in the administration of its great powers it exercised executive functions. Its political status being novel, and its powers and their exercise yet to be determined by the courts . . . . It is a matter of common knowledge that the state, through its Legislature, has zealously guarded the Railroad Commission.")