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| House and Senates - represent people and making the laws |
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| President and Federal Bureaucracy - implementing and executing the laws |
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| Judicial - US Supreme Court and Judiciary - interpreting the laws and setting dispute |
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| relationship between federal and states governments |
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| How many Texans were there from 2009 census? |
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| 11.8 million, greater than 50% |
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| Trust and Reservation Land |
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| Land Indian go out and buy, Fed. law required to place in trust |
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| Land Indian nation received through a treaty |
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| compact (texas, oklahoma...etc) |
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| in 2006, Fed government owes how much? |
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| in charge of the regular, wife chased him and gave him his son, he sold his son, became officer because he could read and write, Lieutenant Colonel |
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| Lieutenant Colonel, in charge of irregular = local militia, fell in love and converted to Catholicism |
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| he was broke, not from Texas came from Tennessee, lost election, came to San Antonio because trade capitol of TX and to look for new life, walked into a battle, everybody expected him to kill Santa Anna, he failed to kill Santa Anna |
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| leader of Mex. forces, declared dictator for life, "stand up against me and you'll die", travel with soundtrack |
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| 18 mins, Texans are mad at Sam Houston, Sam went to opposite way instead of Alamo, he had a dream they won the battle, Texans killed Mex at San Jac River. |
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| Liberal Constitution (U.S.) |
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| relies passage of statues to evolve laws, basic framework of government power and authority, |
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| 7 articles and 27 amendments, empower government |
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| Statuary Constitution (TX) |
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| relies on amendments to evolve the laws, micro manage government, tried to put everything in the Constitution, |
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| 1876, 17 articles, 467 amendments, limit government |
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| 2 types Constitutional revision |
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any change
Comprehensive and Piecemeal |
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| get a new one, total change; ex: what we did to Article to Confederation |
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| use amendments process, adding, deleting |
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5 tenets of American Creed = any order
Texas creed = exact order |
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1. Individualism
2. Liberty
3, Equality
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5. Democracy |
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| 3 differences between American creed and Texas Creed |
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1. TC emphasizes individualism
2. tc emphasizes on liberty
3, ac and tc define equality differently |
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| equality difference between ac and tc |
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ac = race based
tc = social economic based |
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| belief people should act in accordance with conscience |
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| government should not infringe upon your individual rights and freedom or liberty |
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| freedom from racial discrimination |
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| social economic discrimination, freedom from a class or caste system |
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| government should be limited by written document |
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| people hold the power, government serve |
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| 3 criticism of Texas Constitution of 1876 |
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| Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, Judicial Branch |
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| Legislative Branch (TX - Criticism) |
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| -part-time legislature meet only every 2 years BIENNIALLY with a balance budget requirement |
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| Executive Branch (TX - Critism) |
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| weak fragmented and plural executive branch, limited government |
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| Judicial Branch (TX - Criticism) |
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| -unwieldy structure of overlapping jurisdiction - we select judges partisan election, lead to the very appearance of impropriety and partiality |
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| money manager of the county, deal with money |
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| come along and decide where money is going |
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| how many county in texas? |
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| Two types of city government |
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| council manger, strong mayor |
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| council manager (San Antonio, austin) |
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| strong mayor(Houston, NewYork) |
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elect strong mayor, term limited
city council |
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| geographic district withtin a state has primary responsibility for rural purposes, regional planning |
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| ceo planner, legislative body of county |
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| city, county, special districts; emerge dense population area, comes together under a constitution - charter |
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| special function government, provide special services or facility and tax you to accomplish, TX have more than any other state |
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| texas has hatred over term limits |
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| Houston mayor has limit of how many term? |
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| what limits how city can grow in TX? |
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| Extra Territorial Jurisdiction |
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| district-base election and at-large |
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| only ppl who live in a district can represent a district and vote who represent them |
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| you compete throughout jurisdiction and any eligible voter can vote |
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