The Constitutional Amendments: A voter’s guide to the Nov. 5 General Election
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Provided by Texas League of Women Voters
The current Texas Constitution was written in 1876 and has been amended nearly five-hundred times. Compare that to the United States Constitution, which has only twenty-seven amendments.
Why does the Texas Constitution have so many amendments? Rules for how state and local governments should run are very specific in the Texas Constitution, unlike in the US Constitution. Ther...
