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| [[Category:Featured Article]]<indicator name="featured">[[File:Featured_article_star.svg|25px]]</indicator>[[File:Texas_Constitutional_Convention_1875_members.jpg|115px|border|right|members Constitutional Convention of 1875]]''Summary: Article provides brief introduction to current state constitution and links to other pages that contain text of and analysis on each section.''
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| The Texas Constitution of 1876 is the fifth since statehood. Framed by the Constitutional Convention of 1875, it was approved by Texas voters on February 15, 1876.
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| It originally had 289 sections. Over the years, 225 sections have been added. However, 66 of the original sections and 52 of the added sections have been repealed.
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| On TLG, the preamble, each article and each section of the state constitution has its own page:
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Preamble|<span title="Preamble">Preamble to the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article I|<span title="Bill of Rights">Article I of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article II|<span title="The Powers of Government">Article II of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article III|<span title="Legislative Department">Article III of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article IV|<span title="Executive Department">Article IV of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article V|<span title="Judicial Department">Article V of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article VI|<span title="Suffrage">Article VI of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article VII|<span title="Education">Article VII of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article VIII|<span title="Taxation and Revenue">Article VIII of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article IX|<span title="Counties">Article IX of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article X|<span title="Railroads">Article X of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article XI|<span title="Municipal Corporations">Article XI of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article XII|<span title="Private Corporations">Article XII of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article XIII|<span title="Spanish and Mexican Land Titles">Article XIII of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article XIV|<span title="Public Lands and Land Office">Article XIV of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article XV|<span title="Impeachment">Article XV of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article XVI|<span title="General Provisions">Article XVI of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| *[[Texas Constitution:Article XVII|<span title="Mode of Amending the Constitution of this State">Article XVII of the Texas Constitution</span>]]
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| [[Category:Texas Constitution| ]]
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| [[Category:By Steve Smith]]
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| |description=Introduction to the current Texas Constitution and links to other pages that contain the text of and analysis on each section.
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