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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Article XVI, Section 2 of the Texas Constitution}}{{Template:Texas Constitution|text=As amended November 6, 2001:

'''Laws shall be made to exclude from office persons who have been convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes.'''

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As adopted in 1876, this section read: "Laws shall be made to exclude from office, serving on juries, and from the right of suffrage, those who may have been or shall hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes. The privilege of free suffrage shall be protected by laws regulating elections and prohibiting under adequate penalties all undue influence therein from power, bribery, tumult, or other improper practice."

It has been amended once. The amendment moved the jury substance to Article V, Section [[Texas Constitution:Article V, Section 14|14]], the suffrage substance to Article VI, Section [[Texas Constitution:Article VI, Section 1|1]], and the elections substance to Article VI, Section [[Texas Constitution:Article VI, Section 2|2]].

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* ''In re Bazan'', 251 S.W.3d 39, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15643142582752591588#p40 40] (Tex. 2008) ("In this original mandamus proceeding, we must decide whether Chapter 87 of the Local Government Code forbids a district court from removing a county officer, who has been convicted of a felony, when the conviction is based on acts that occurred before the officer's election. The question arises because one section in Chapter 87 provides for the officer's immediate removal upon conviction, while another seemingly prohibits removal for acts that predate an election. We construed this statute in . . . . Because we conclude that ''Talamantez'' was wrongly decided, however, we overrule that decision and deny the present petition for writ of mandamus.")

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