Constitutional Change in Texas During the Reconstruction, 1865-1876
Description:
In the decade following the Civil War the Texas political scene was dominated by revisionist activity with regard to the state's constitution. In that period the organic law of the state was altered three times, twice because of the exigencies of National Reconstruction and a third time to satisfy the retrenchment impulses partially stimulated by the Reconstruction experiment. None of the three constitutions written during this ten year period can be properly understood in isolation from the ot…
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Date:
August 1967
Creator:
Carrier, John Pressley
Partner:
UNT Libraries