Chapters 1-3 Flashcards

Question

Who are Texans?

Answer 1

Grew rapidly in 1850s, enslaved African Americans. 1980s, boom years. 1990s-now, brief slowdown

Answer 2

Cotton and cattle

Answer 3

Creates a form of dependency, and fuels a certain segment of the population within Texas to actually go towards what would be considered radical forms of political discontent

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Groups of people who are doing farming for others that are there. Someone who owns land and equipment. People who till the land, cultivate and pull the producer crops have to pay something back to those who own the land

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A lot of different people looking for alternatives to those forms of tenant farming that are true. Ranching is more lucrative in many ways

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Allows for many of the farmers/ranchers to be able to get their particular products to different forms of markets. Originally only for market consumption. More access to places, allowing the economy to grow

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1881, first oil field in texas, such as an oil rush. Railroads allow it to be shipped out . Viable and producers a great deal of wealth. High education benefits, bc some lands end up having a great deal of oil underneath

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Emerge virtually overnight. The oil make people really wealthy, then become ghost towns. Boom and bust

Answer 9

Influences things on the basis of the fact that we get to see an expansion of technology and the way in which we have other source that start to influence what we actually see. International economy contributes to this bc of international trade. The military starts to make use of many technological inputs bringing into what they’re doing has many military bases in Texas. Influence what we see in the economy

Answer 10

Measurement, really difficult to get a grasp on what its actually is and about, ideology, a set of ideas about the way in which we think government should work or politics should function, and political economy, based upon a shared set of values, beliefs, merging from this is a shared set of institutions that we value

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Liberty, we should have the ability to make choices, equality, nobody is different from anyone else, and democracy, the best way to make our ideas wrapped up together

Answer 12

Traditionalistic, idea of how the traditions have been done, individualistic, notion about having self resilience and individual interest, and regions, combined in a way that is different from other regions

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Political elites, we should have difference with them, traditions, a traditional set of ideas in how we conduct politics, southern culture, brought in to suggest that there’s a way in which we would see the fabric of culture being brought in to government, limited government, and economic self interest

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1 party dominance, more than 100 years and has flipped, provincialism, idea of a limited government, and business dominance, the government has a great deal of input from business

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Gulf coastal plains, interior lowlands, Great Plains, and basin and range province

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White, part of those that dominate the political background and institutions, Latinos, a growing number and changing demographics, black, many descendants from slavery, and Asian Americans

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Age, huge difference between the average age meaning there is a lot of young people, socioeconomic status, younger people are more in poverty, and urbanization, 85% live in urban areas like Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin

Answer 18

A legal framework within which the government works in texas, just as the U.S. constitution is the legal framework for our national institutions. Has immediate and enormous impact on citizens everyday lives

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Guarantees to Texans rights that go far beyond those guaranteed to Americans in the U.S. constitution, addressing numerous specific issues related to Texans private lives

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Stipulates that no money will be appropriated or drawn from the treasury that benefits a set, religious society, or religious seminary. Lists the conditions that the state must meet if it wants to take, damage, or destroy the private of individuals

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Provides a detailed list of the rights of crime victims including the rights to be treated with dignity and privacy in the criminal process and to confer with representatives of the prosecutors office

Answer 22

Rendered inoperable by a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2015. Defines a marriage as consisting only of the union of one man and one woman

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Guarantees Texans a rights to access and use public beaches

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27 times since 1789(when it was adopted)

Answer 25

An amendment gave the governor limited authority to remove appointed statewide officials

Answer 26

Amendment abolished the office of the state treasurer, placing its duties in the Texas competitors office

Answer 27

An amendment passed that eliminated the county office of the inspector of hides and animals

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Amendments were passed protecting certain private property from being taken by the state through eminent domain

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Amendments creating funds to help finance important water and transportation projects

Answer 30

Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment that prohibited an income tax on individuals in Texas

Answer 31

Important functions like, justify and make legitimate state political institutions by clearly explaining the source of their power and authority, state constitutions also delegate power, explaining which political powers are granted to particular institutions and individuals and how those powers are to be used, they’re responsible for the establishment of local governments including counties municipalities and special purpose districts, they prevent the concentration of political power by providing mechanisms that check and balance the powers of one political institution/individual officeholder against another, they define the limits of political power, through declarations of rights, state constitutions explicitly forbid the intrusion of certain kinds of governmental activities into the lives of individuals

Answer 32

Political power in both the U.S. and texas is ultimately derived from the people, the U.S. and texas constitutions feature separation of powers, structure political power in such a way that the power of one branch is checked and balanced by the powers of the other two branches, underlines the U.S. and Texas constitutions meaning the idea that individuals have rights, and federalism, the division of government into a central government and a group of regional governments, exercise direct authority over individual citizens of both the nation state and a particular region with it

Answer 33

Declaring the constitution and the laws of the U.S. to be “ the supreme law of the land”, requires all judges in every state to be bound by the U.S. constitution not withstanding the laws or constitution of their particular state, the U.S. constitutions thus taxes precedence over the Texas constitution

Answer 34

A common concern among the framers of the U.S. constitution and the authors of Texas various constitutions that the intent of writing a constitution was not just to establish effective governing institutions but also to ensure that these institutions would not tyrannize the very people who established them

Answer 35

To pit self interest of officeholders in one branch against that of officeholders in the other branches

Answer 36

Listing in detail the specific powers granted to congress by the constitution, concludes by granting congress the power “necessary and proper “ to accomplish its constitutional tasks, to provide a constitutional basis for an enormous expansion of central government activities over the next 200+ years

Answer 37

7, 1 under the Mexican political regime prior to independence, 1 as an independent republic, 1 as a member of the confederacy, and 4 as a state within the U.S.

Answer 38

First federal constitution operated under, provided 2 houses of congress, a president and vice president, elected for 4 year terms by the legislative bodies of the states, and Supreme Court, mandated separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches, no attempt was made to define the scope of states rights within the Mexican confederation, Catholicism was established as the state religion and was supported financially by the state, Coahuila and Texas were combined as a state,published march 11,1827, divided into 3 districts, legislative power placed in a unicameral legislature

Answer 39

English Spanish speaking primary schools, separate statehood for Texas emerged from the conventions, the 1833 convention drafted a constitution and sent Stephan F. Austin to Mexico City to petition the central government to reform, it failed and it led to his imprisonment

Answer 40

Texas was rising up in defense of its rights and liberties as well as the republican principles articulated in the Mexican constitution

Answer 41

To protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people. Any government that stripped the people of their liberty was unacceptable to those raised on principles of self government. Self preservation demanded “eternal political separation” from the very state (Mexico)

Answer 42

Established an elected chief executive with considerable powers. A bicameral legislature. A 4-tiered judicial system composed of justice, county, district, and supreme courts. Power divided with a system of checks and balances between them, bill of rights. Guarantee that all white men could vote. Community property; property acquired by either spouse during a marriage would be jointly owned. Homestead protections; ones home would be protected during bankruptcy proceedings. Debtor refill

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Granting ownership of mineral rights to the individuals who owned the land under which minerals were found. Defense of slavery as a econmin and political institution with constitutional protections. Save slavery as an institution, also provided the protections needed for slavery to flourish

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Who may vote in Texas. Empowers the legislative to enact laws regulating voter registration and the selection of electors for president and vice president

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A general diffusion of knowledge essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people. Makes it a duty of the state legislature to support and maintain “an efficient system of public free schools”. Provide for the funding of public education. Provides for the establishment and funding of a “university of the first class” to be called “ university of Texas”

Answer 46

Enabled the legislature to tax the income of individuals and businesses. Required that a personal income tax be approved by the voters and that the proceeds from it to be dedicated to education and tax relief. Prohibiting any income tax on individuals. To curtail severely what the state legislature can do and how it can do it

Answer 47

Highly detailed discussions of the creation, organizations, and operation of counties and municipal corporations

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10, railroads, empowers state to regulate railroads and establish railroad commission,12, private corporations, create general laws creating private corporations and protecting the public, 13, Spanish and Mexican land titles, repealed, 14, public lands, created general land office to deal withe registration of land titles

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