Exam 3: The Texas Constitution

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A) Both constitutions have a clause providing the legislature with the authority to make all laws necessary and proper to carrying out its expressed powers.
B) Both constitutions derive their power from the authority of the people.
C) Both constitutions divide authority between a central government and regional governments.
D) Both constitutions create a system of checks and balances between the different branches of government.
E) Both constitutions have been amended several hundred times.

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A) Texas had to accept the abolition of slavery.
B) Texas had to repudiate the war debt incurred by the state.
C) Texas had to return to the federal government parts of Oklahoma seized by Texas Confederate soldiers.
D) The state had to formally reject the right of secession.
E) There were strong Union and secessionist factions at the convention.

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A) Texas.
B) slave-owning southern states.
C) New England and New York.
D) Mexico.
E) Spain.

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A) They were a consortium of railroad entrepreneurs who wanted a constitution that would aid business interests.
B) They were a group of pro-Union Republicans who controlled the state after the Civil War.
C) They were an agricultural group who wanted a government that would improve the plight of farmers.
D) They were early wildcatters who wanted land grants from the state so they could explore for oil.
E) They were a group of pro-independence landowners who wanted Texas to secede from the Union.

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A) Davis was a Democratic Confederate sympathizer who frequently clashed with the federal Congress.
B) Davis tried to return Texas to independence rather than reenter the Union after the Civil War.
C) Davis was a Republican who used the centralized powers of the governorship to maintain control over his regime.
D) Davis sought to decentralize government in Texas, moving toward a policy of home rule.
E) Davis sought to bring Texas into a cooperative relationship with the United States after the Civil War.

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A) There is no bill of rights in the Texas Constitution.
B) The Texas Constitution grants to Texans rights that are not found in the U.S. Constitution.
C) The Texas bill of rights is far less detailed than the federal Bill of Rights.
D) The Texas Constitution has no specific rights for those accused of a crime.
E) The Texas Constitution does not grant specific rights to former slaves.

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A) Most state constitutions create confederated forms of government.
B) Civil rights are not found in state constitutions.
C) The U.S. Constitution contains no checks and balances.
D) State constitutions are subordinate to the U.S. Constitution.
E) State constitutions contain no checks and balances.

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A) The right to republican government is not guaranteed in the Texas bill of rights.
B) Republican government is part of a system of representative democracy.
C) Under a representative government, power derives from the people.
D) The Texas constitution gives the people a right to reform or to abolish their government.
E) The right to republican government is guaranteed in the Texas bill of rights.

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A) Since independence from Mexico, Texas has had a bicameral legislature.
B) Texas's first unicameral legislature was established while the state was a member of the Confederacy.
C) Texas has always had a unicameral legislature.
D) Texas created the idea of a unicameral legislature.
E) Texas has a plural legislature divided up into six different chambers.

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A) Spain; Napoleonic Wars
B) France; French Revolution
C) Spain; U.S. War of Independence
D) United States; U.S. War of Independence
E) Spain; War of 1812

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A) a two-thirds vote in both houses of the state legislature and a majority vote from the voters of Texas
B) only a majority vote from the voters of Texas
C) the governor's signature
D) a two-thirds vote in county conventions convened for the purpose of amending the constitution
E) a majority vote in both houses of the state legislature

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A) lawyers and slaveholders.
B) small farmers and ranchers.
C) representatives of business and the railroads.
D) supporters of Governor Sam Houston.
E) supporters of an independent Republic of Texas.

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A) because Texas needed a new constitution when it joined the Confederacy.
B) by members of the Texas Republican Party.
C) in order to limit the power of state government.
D) as a reaction against Reconstruction.
E) to abolish slavery.

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