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Similarities and Differences between the U.S. and Texas Constitutions. The two constitutions are similar in that they provide for a separation of powers, checks and balances, and a bill of rights. The concept of federalism is also embodied in both documents. http://www.wwnorton.com/college/polisci/we-the-people9/texas/ch/20/outline.aspx The Constitution of the State of Texas is the document that describes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of Texas. The current document took effect on February 15, 1876, and is the seventh (including the Mexican constitution) constitution in Texas history. The Constitution of 1876 is the sixth constitution by which Texas has been governed since independence from Mexico was achieved in 1836. It was framed by the Constitutional Convention of 1875 and adopted on February 15, 1876, by a vote of 136,606 to 56,652, and it remains the basic organic law of Texas We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States_of_America_1992