Texas Constitution:Article I, Section 1 - Revision history

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	{{DISPLAYTITLE:Article I, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution (''<small>"Freedom and Sovereignty of State"</small>'')}}{{Texas Constitution\|text=Adopted February 15, 1876:		{{DISPLAYTITLE:Article I, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution (''<small>"Freedom and Sovereignty of State"</small>'')}}{{Texas Constitution\|text=Adopted February 15, 1876:

	Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.		'''Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.'''

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	~~'''~~Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.~~'''~~		Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.

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	[[Category:Texas Bill of Rights]]		[[Category:Texas Bill of Rights]]
			[[Category:State Government Law]]
	[[Category:TxCon ArtI Sec]]		[[Category:TxCon ArtI Sec]]

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	{{DISPLAYTITLE:Article I, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution (''<small>"Freedom and Sovereignty of State"</small>'')}}{{Texas Constitution\|text=Adopted February 15, 1876:		{{DISPLAYTITLE:Article I, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution (''<small>"Freedom and Sovereignty of State"</small>'')}}{{Texas Constitution\|text=Adopted February 15, 1876:

	Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.		'''Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.'''

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	~~'''~~Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.~~'''~~		Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.

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	* ''Texas Mutual Insurance Co. v. PHI Air Medical, LLC'', 610 S.W.3d 839, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13299155594589376873#p855 855] (Tex. 2020) ("If the Federal Government does not like state regulation of a subject that also falls within Congress's enumerated powers . . . . But nowhere in the Constitution did the States give the Federal Government the power to order them to change their own laws, as the Tenth Amendment confirms. ''See'' U.S. Const. amend. X ('The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.').")		* ''Texas Mutual Insurance Co. v. PHI Air Medical, LLC'', 610 S.W.3d 839, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13299155594589376873#p855 855] (Tex. 2020) ("If the Federal Government does not like state regulation of a subject that also falls within Congress's enumerated powers . . . . But nowhere in the Constitution did the States give the Federal Government the power to order them to change their own laws, as the Tenth Amendment confirms. ''See'' U.S. Const. amend. X ('The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.').")

	* ''King Street Patriots v. Texas Democratic Party'', 521 S.W.3d 729, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=892587947312060586#p742 742-~~743~~] (Tex. 2017) (footnotes omitted) ("Only the Supreme Court has the 'prerogative . . . to overrule one of its precedents.' Thus even if ''Beaumont'''s rationale is in doubt, we are bound to follow it unless and until the Supreme Court overrules it. Our unanimous acknowledgment that ''Beaumont'' is binding Supreme Court precedent terminates our inquiry. As the Supreme Court has admonished, any further examination is 'wrong,' even querying whether subsequent authority impugns its continued vitality.")		* ''King Street Patriots v. Texas Democratic Party'', 521 S.W.3d 729, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=892587947312060586#p742 742-43] (Tex. 2017) (footnotes omitted) ("Only the Supreme Court has the 'prerogative . . . to overrule one of its precedents.' Thus even if ''Beaumont'''s rationale is in doubt, we are bound to follow it unless and until the Supreme Court overrules it. Our unanimous acknowledgment that ''Beaumont'' is binding Supreme Court precedent terminates our inquiry. As the Supreme Court has admonished, any further examination is 'wrong,' even querying whether subsequent authority impugns its continued vitality.")

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	* ''Texas Mutual Insurance Co. v. PHI Air Medical, LLC'', 610 S.W.3d 839, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13299155594589376873#p855 855] (Tex. 2020) ("If the Federal Government does not like state regulation of a subject that also falls within Congress's enumerated powers . . . . But nowhere in the Constitution did the States give the Federal Government the power to order them to change their own laws, as the Tenth Amendment confirms. ''See'' U.S. Const. amend. X ('The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.').")		* ''Texas Mutual Insurance Co. v. PHI Air Medical, LLC'', 610 S.W.3d 839, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13299155594589376873#p855 855] (Tex. 2020) ("If the Federal Government does not like state regulation of a subject that also falls within Congress's enumerated powers . . . . But nowhere in the Constitution did the States give the Federal Government the power to order them to change their own laws, as the Tenth Amendment confirms. ''See'' U.S. Const. amend. X ('The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.').")

	* ''King Street Patriots v. Texas Democratic Party'', 521 S.W.3d 729, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=892587947312060586#p742 742-43] (Tex. 2017) (footnotes omitted) ("Only the Supreme Court has the 'prerogative . . . to overrule one of its precedents.' Thus even if ''Beaumont'''s rationale is in doubt, we are bound to follow it unless and until the Supreme Court overrules it. Our unanimous acknowledgment that ''Beaumont'' is binding Supreme Court precedent terminates our inquiry. As the Supreme Court has admonished, any further examination is 'wrong,' even querying whether subsequent authority impugns its continued vitality.")		* ''King Street Patriots v. Texas Democratic Party'', 521 S.W.3d 729, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=892587947312060586#p742 742-743] (Tex. 2017) (footnotes omitted) ("Only the Supreme Court has the 'prerogative . . . to overrule one of its precedents.' Thus even if ''Beaumont'''s rationale is in doubt, we are bound to follow it unless and until the Supreme Court overrules it. Our unanimous acknowledgment that ''Beaumont'' is binding Supreme Court precedent terminates our inquiry. As the Supreme Court has admonished, any further examination is 'wrong,' even querying whether subsequent authority impugns its continued vitality.")

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