On 6/2/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 08:05 AM Thursday 6/2/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> >>At 12:49 AM Thursday 6/2/2005, Gary Denton wrote:
> >>
> >>>On 6/1/05, Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> >>It sounds like someone may finally have written a worse constitution than
> >>the Alabama constitution of 1901 (which is still in effect) . . .
> >
> >How much worse than the Texas constitution is it?  The Texas constitution
> >requires that the legislature, then the voters, pass all sorts of
> >amendments to get a good number of things done.
> 
> 
> So does Alabama.  For all sorts of local matters.  How many times has the
> Texas constitution been amended?  IIRC, in now a little over a century,
> Alabama's has been amended over 600 times (and those are just the ones
> which actually passed through that process and got approved . . . many more
> have been tried.)
> 
> 
> -- Ronn!  :)

As of 2003 (78th Legislature), the Texas Legislature has passed a
total of 606 amendments. Of these, 432 have been adopted and 174 have
been defeated by Texas voters. Thus, the Texas Constitution has been
amended 432 times since its adoption in 1876.

-- 
Gary Denton
Easter Lemming Blogs
http://elemming.blogspot.com
http://elemming2.blogspot.com
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