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Texas Constitution talk:Article XVII, Section 1
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==add ?== https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/Housejournals/35CS4/H_35_4.pdf page 25 (cannot veto ratification of us amendment) Whiteside v. Brown, 214 S.W.2d 844, 847 (Tex. Civ. App.-Austin 1948, writ dism'd) (concluding that substantial compliance with article XVII, section 1 of the Texas Constitution, relating to notices of elections, satisfied the constitutional demand). https://cite.case.law/pdf/2333822/Railroad%20Commission%20v.%20Sterling%20Oil%20&%20Refining%20Co.,%20147%20Tex.%20547,%20218%20S.W.2d%20415%20(1949).pdf Article XVII of the Constitution provides the method by which amendments to the Constitution are to be adopted. That provides Legislature * * * article that, “The may proposé amendments to the Constitution, to be voted upon by the qualified elec- * * * tors which proposed amendments shall be duly published once a week for four weeks, commencing at least three months before an election, the time of which shall be specified by the Legislature, in one weekly newspaper of each county, in which a newspaper may * * such be published, *.” There is no contention made that this provision of the Constitution was not complied with.
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