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Texas Constitution:Article III, Section 47 (view source)
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The Texas Attorney General, in Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. [https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/2003/ga0103.pdf#page=8 GA-103] (2003), opined that: "To summarize, in approving the addition of subsection (e) to article III, section 47 of the Texas Constitution, Texas voters in 1991 did not intend to authorize the state to operate, or to contract for the operation of, 'lotteries' in the broad sense that it has been construed by the courts since the adoption of the 1876 constitution." | The Texas Attorney General, in Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. [https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/2003/ga0103.pdf#page=8 GA-103] (2003), opined that: "To summarize, in approving the addition of subsection (e) to article III, section 47 of the Texas Constitution, Texas voters in 1991 did not intend to authorize the state to operate, or to contract for the operation of, 'lotteries' in the broad sense that it has been construed by the courts since the adoption of the 1876 constitution." | ||
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* ''State v. Randle'', 41 Tex. 292, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/41_Tex._292.pdf#page=7 298] (1874) ("In many States of the Union there is, as in our State Constitution, a prohibition against lotteries. The statutes of many of the States are in the like general terms as our statute against lotteries; and looking to the character of the act charged; it being simply a game of chance, and taking it in connection with the articles in the code against gaming, we are satisfied the law is not open to the objections presented. It is as descriptive of the offense as are the articles of the code prohibiting other kinds of gaming, and quite as descriptive of the of the offense as are the laws . . . .") | * ''State v. Randle'', 41 Tex. 292, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/41_Tex._292.pdf#page=7 298] (1874) ("In many States of the Union there is, as in our State Constitution, a prohibition against lotteries. The statutes of many of the States are in the like general terms as our statute against lotteries; and looking to the character of the act charged; it being simply a game of chance, and taking it in connection with the articles in the code against gaming, we are satisfied the law is not open to the objections presented. It is as descriptive of the offense as are the articles of the code prohibiting other kinds of gaming, and quite as descriptive of the of the offense as are the laws . . . .") | ||
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