Texas Constitution:Article I, Section 7: Difference between revisions

Texas Constitution:Article I, Section 7 (view source)

2 bytes added , June 22

m

no edit summary

5,933

edits

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 The Texas Supreme Court has never addressed this section, which prohibits the State from using its money or property to "benefit" a religious group.
+Note that its unique text, which first appeared in a Texas constitution in 1876, is substantively similar to Section [https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/historical/miconstitution1835.htm 5] of the 1835 Michigan Constitution.
 The Texas Attorney General, in Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. [https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/1973/jh0066.pdf H-66] (1973), opined at length on the constitutionality of the Tuition Equalization Grant Program.
@@ Line 15: / Line 17: @@
 And recently, in Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. [https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/2023/kp-0439.pdf KP-439] (2023), he opined that this section generally violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
-Note that this section's unique text, which first appeared in the Texas Constitution in 1876, is similar to Section [https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/historical/miconstitution1835.htm 5] of the 1835 Michigan Constitution.
 |recent=