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The Similarities and difference between the US constitution and the Texas constitution.
The US Constitution and the Texas Constitution have many similarities as it has differences. That is why I am here to inform you of those differences and similarities.The US Constitution is mainly about the bill of rights and congressional themes and the Amendments of the US. And that is very similar to the Texas Constitution as they are both manifestations of representative democracy. They also both have a bill of rights and they both contain a bicameral legislature witch is two houses of a legislature. There is a senate and a house of representatives. That is basically what a legislature is. Another similarity is that both constitutions use the systems of checks and balances within their government. The states are considered subordinate in the states according to the US constitution, in the same way the county in Texas are subordinate to the state government. A difference is that the us government is a more centralized government that supports all the states and the state of Texas by itself is a weaker government and the counties have more power than the state as a whole.

The US constitution is very quick and very vague. And the Texas constitution is very long and very detailed and tells you more precisely how things must happen. In the us constitution the bill of rights are the first ten amendments of the constitution that all civil liberty of all Americans, In the Texas constitution the first amendment is the entire Texas bill of rights. The US constitution centralizes power in the executive branch for the office of the president and concentrates power on the office of the president and judicial and the legislature. The Texas constitution takes power of all elective offices and breaks up the entire executive branch.

The US constitution is difficult to amend and the structure is not necessary to amend. The Texas constitution i however, is easy to amend and is hard to get it through the legislature but is easy to pass. The Texas constitution follows the US constitution about the right to bare arms in the us constitutions second amendment. It is also listed in the first amendment of the Texas constitution about the right to bare arms.

Vocabulary:

Amend means modify formally, as a legal document or legislative bill.

Bicameral Legislature (of a legislative body) having two branches or chambers.

Bill of Rights are a set of rules created by a government.

Branch is a division or office of a large business or organization, operating locally or having a particular function.

Centralized concentrate (control of an activity or organization) under a single authority.

Constitution is a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.

Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Legislature is the the legislative body of a country or state.

Manifestations are an event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, especially a theory or an abstract idea.

Subordinate is of less or secondary importance.

Vague is of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning.

I have gotten this information from these websites: http://constitutionus.com/ http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/CN/htm/CN.1.htm

This article was made by Is Maleika from Young Womens Steam Research And Preparatory Academy. https://www.episd.org/steamacademy Who is in 7th grade this year of 2017-2018.