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18 Cards in this Set
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First Texas Constitution
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1836
Texas bacame its own country, The REpublic of Texas |
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Second TX Constitution
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1845
Texas entered the Union |
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Third TX Cons
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1861
TX became part of the Confederacy |
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4th TX Cons.
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1866
Confederacy lost the war and TX rewrote Cons. to reneter Union |
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5th TX Constitution
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1869
Radical Republicans- Convention Pregessive beliefs- free slaves should have rights |
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6th TX cons.
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1876
set for weak state govt. plural executive |
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Weak TX legislature
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meet every other year--gives local freedon, power to county andlocal govt
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democratic control
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people have the maximum control
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Federalism
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1. a way to have many different viewpoints
2. combines unitary and condfederation |
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unitary government
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political power is held in the cenral government
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confederation (republic)
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loose association of states that lend power to the central govt. power set in states.
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Advantages of Republic
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1. intimate self-rule
2. homogeneity 3. general will |
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intimate self-rule
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the governed have impact in the govt
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homogeneity
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comity, sameness--friendly feeling, easier to get along, less social strife
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general will
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will is realized by the polity
ex. political equality doesn't happen overnight, people have the will to change |
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advantages of confederation
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1. strength
2. prosperity increase intellectual activity |
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disadvatages of republic
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faction- homogeneity, easy to breed and manipulate
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disadvsatages of cenfederation
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1. heterogeneity - diferences breed conflict
2. nationalism- "my state first" |
