Constitution Basics
This is the number of articles in the Texas Constitution.
What is 17?
The basic unit of local government in Texas.
What is the county
The branch of government enforces the laws in Texas.
What is the executive branch
When did Texas join the United States?
What is 1845?
Who can propose laws in Texas?
What is the Texas Legislature?
This principle ensures power is shared between the state and national government.
What is federalism?
The role of county commissioners.
What is managing the county finances and services
The term limit for a Texas governor
What is four years
In what year was the first Constitution of Texas adopted?
What is 1836?
What is one way the Texas Legislature checks the Governor's power?
What is overriding a veto?
This article adresses Education.
What is Article VII?
This term describes a city's power to make its own laws under the Texas Constitution.
What is home rule?
How often does the Texas Legislature meet?
What is every two years in odd-numbered years
What event led Texas to adopt its current constitution?
What is the Reconstruction Era
How can the Governor influence the legislative agenda?
What is calling special sessions?
The Texas Constitution emphasizes these two principles to limit government power.
What are checks and balances and separation of powers?
The municipalities generate revenue by.
What is levying taxes and fees
The branch of government interprets the laws in Texas.
What is the judicial branch
Who was president when Texas was annexed into the United States?
Who is James K. Polk?
What is the process called when the Legislature can remove a state official?
What is impeachment?
The Texas Constitution is amended in this way.
What is by a 2/3 vote in both houses of the legislature and voter approval?
Counties in Texas are governed by this body.
What is the commissioners court?
The presiding officer of the Texas House holds this title.
What is the Speaker of the House?
What Supreme Court case in 1869 declared that states could not unilaterally secede from the Union?
What is Texas vs. White?
What happens when the courts declare a law unconstitutional?
What is the law is no longer enforced?