Texas Constitution talk:Article III, Section 56: Difference between revisions
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The prohibition | |||
against special legislation will be practically a dead letter. As | |||
it is the practice in the Legislature to yield and grant any local | |||
measure asked by any representative in that body, it is only | |||
necessary to demand a particular enactment for a special pur�pose, and if there is no constitutional constraint, it is passed as a | |||
matter of course. The legislative discretion in such cases extend | |||
only to the representations of the member who is interested in the | |||
passage of the bill. | |||
all counties where the same circumstances exist must have the same form of government | all counties where the same circumstances exist must have the same form of government | ||