Texas’s involvement in the failed attempt to create a separate nation with other southern states led to a rapid turnover in constitutions—four in fifteen years—culminating in a document that forms the...Texas’s involvement in the failed attempt to create a separate nation with other southern states led to a rapid turnover in constitutions—four in fifteen years—culminating in a document that forms the basis of the current constitution, adopted by a Constitutional Convention in 1875 and ratified by Texas voters in 1876 (Figure 3.1).
