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Texas Constitution talk:Article X, Section 2
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== add ? == I think now that it is practically universally conceded that the Legislature of Texas could have created the Rail- road Commission and granted it the power and authority it now has, without the amendment of the Constitution of 1800, and that the only purpose of the amendment was to express in no uncertain terms the demand of the people in protest ago.inst action of the Legislature of 1880 in failing to create an agency to control and regulate the affairs of railroads. It was the culmination of a political situation then ex- isting, expressing a demand of the people, which the Legislature could not inΒ· definitely ignore https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/Housejournals/40/H_40_0.pdf page 320
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