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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Testing Privilege: Coaching Bar Takers Towards “Minimum Competency” During The 2020 Pandemic, Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh
Testing Privilege: Coaching Bar Takers Towards “Minimum Competency” During The 2020 Pandemic, Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Abstract forthcoming.
A Guide To The 87th Texas Legislative Session, José Menéndez, Pearl D. Cruz
A Guide To The 87th Texas Legislative Session, José Menéndez, Pearl D. Cruz
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Challenges and potential solutions during the 87th Texas Legislative session.
There Is Only One Texas Constitution, Joshua Morrow
There Is Only One Texas Constitution, Joshua Morrow
St. Mary's Law Journal
The pre-ratification text of the Texas Constitution appeared throughout the state in conflicting English-and foreign-language copies. Some commentators argue that it is impossible to know which copy the people ratified, or even that Texas does not have a constitution. These arguments create theoretical problems, because courts interpreting the constitution assume that it consists of fixed and determinable text. And the principle of popular sovereignty precludes denying that the constitution exists. The conflicting copies also create practical problems. Are the legislature’s acts void for failing to include a Spanish-language enacting clause? May the state imprison citizens for debt, since the German …
Texas: A Weak Governor State, Or Is It?, Ron Beal
Texas: A Weak Governor State, Or Is It?, Ron Beal
St. Mary's Law Journal
The current Texas Constitution was adopted in 1876 and was written after the Civil War and the Reconstruction Period when Federal troops occupied the State. The general perception is that the Federal troops used the Governor, in essence, to impose a form of dictatorship over the people. It was clearly the intent of the new constitution’s framers to create a very weak governor form of government in order to spread its powers to many independently elected officials. It provided that the state officers who were appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate were semi-independent from the Governor by …
Ezra, Rehnquist, And St. Mary’S University, Lance Kimbro
Ezra, Rehnquist, And St. Mary’S University, Lance Kimbro
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract forthcoming.