Selected Sources for Reading: Books and Articles
Chapter 2 Federalism and the Texas Constitution
Angell, Robert H. A Compilation and Analysis of the 1998 Texas Constitution and the Original
1876 Text. Studies in American History. Vol. 23. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.
Baum, Dale. The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State During the Civil
War Era. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Covers the political
background that produced Texas’s three state constitutions in the 1860s.
Bowman, Ann O’M. “American Federalism on the Horizon.” Publius: The Journal of
Federalism 32 (Spring 2002): 3-22.
Braden, George D. Citizen’s Guide to the Proposed New Texas Constitution. Institute of Urban
Studies, University of Houston. Austin: Sterling Swift, 1975.
Braden, George D., et al. The Constitution of the State of Texas: An Annotated Comparative
Analysis. 2 vols. Austin: Texas Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1977.
Brock, Ralph H. “‘The Republic of Texas Is No More’: An Answer to the Claim that Texas Was
Unconstitutionally Annexed to the United States.” Texas Tech Law Review 28, no. 3 (1997):
679–751. Addresses the claim of Richard Lance McLaren and others who support the militiainfluenced “Republic of Texas” (R.O.T.) actions of the 1990s.
Chen, Paul. “Federalism and Rights: A Neglected Relationship.” South Texas Law Review 40
(Summer 1999): 845–879.
Cole, Richard L., Rodney V. Hissong, and Enid Arvidson. “Devolution: Where Is the
Revolution?” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 29 (Fall 1999): 99–112.
Cornyn, John. “The Roots of the Texas Constitution: Settlement to Statehood.” Texas Tech Law
Review. 26, no. 4 (1995): 1089-1218.
Deaton, Charles. A Voter’s Guide to the 1974 Texas Constitutional Convention: A Description of
the Most Important Votes Taken During the 1974 Constitutional Convention, with the Voting
Records of the 181 Legislator Delegates Fully Shown. Austin: Texas Government Newsletter,
1975.
Dilger, Robert Jay. “The Study of American Federalism at the Turn of the Century.” State and
Local Government Review 32 (Spring 2000): 98–107.
Dinan, John. “State Constitutional Developments in 2005.” In Book of the States, 2006 ed., 3-8.
Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, 2006.
Fink, Rob. “Hermine Tobolowsky, the Texas ELRA, and the Political Struggle for Women’s
Equal Rights.” Journal of the West 42 (Summer 2003): 52-57.
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Gantt, Fred, Jr. The Impact of the Texas Constitution on the Executive. Houston: Institute for
Urban Studies, University of Houston, 1973.
Gardner, James A. “Devolution and the Paradox of Democratic Unresponsiveness.” South Texas
Law Review 40 (Summer 1999): 759–787.
Greenhill, Joe R. "The Constitutional Amendment Giving Criminal Jurisdiction to the Texas
Courts of Civil Appeals and Recognizing the Inherent Power of the Texas Supreme Court."
Texas Tech Law Review. 33:2 (2002): 377-404. A former chief justice of the Supreme Court of
Texas gives a step-by-step account of amending the state constitution.
Greve, Michael S. “Federalism’s Frontier.” Texas Review of Law & Politics 7 (Fall 2002): 93126.
Grunwald, Michael. “Devolution: Congress Doesn’t Walk the Walk.” State Legislatures
(January 2000): 32–34.
Harrington, James C. The Texas Bill of Rights: In the Mainstream of the Movement to Protect
Individual Rights—A Commentary and Litigation Manual, 2d ed. Carlsbad, Calif.: Butterworth
Legal Publishers, 1994.
Howell, Kenneth Wayne. “‘When the Rabble Hiss, Will May Patriots Tremble’: James W.
Throckmorton and the Secession Movement in Texas, 1854-1861.” Texas State Historical
Quarterly 109 (April 2006): 464-493.
Jewett, Clayton E. Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building. Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 2003.
Kincaid, John. “State-Federal Relations: Federal Dollars Down, Federal Power Up.” In Book of
the States, 2006 ed., 19-25. Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, 2006.
Kincaid, John, Andrew Parkin, Richard L. Cole, and Alejandro Rodriguez. “Public Opinion on
Federalism in Canada, Mexico, and the United States in 2003.” Publius: The Journal of
Federalism 33 (Summer 2003): 145-162.
Kreidler, Tai. “Hermine Tobolowsky: Mother of Texas Equal Rights Amendment.” In The
Human Tradition in Texas, Edited by Ty Cashin and Jesús de la Teja, 209-220. Wilmington,
Del.: SR Books, 2001.
Lund, Nelson. “Federalism and the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms.” Publius: The Journal of
Federalism 33 (Summer 2003): 63-81.
McKay, Seth S. Debates in the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1875. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1930.
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McKay, Seth S. Making the Texas Constitution of 1876. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1924.
McKay, Seth S. Seven Decades of the Texas Constitution of 1876. Lubbock: Printed by the
author, 1942.
May, Janice C. The Texas Constitutional Revision Experience in the ‘70s. Austin: Sterling Swift,
1975.
May, Janice C. “Texas Constitutional Revision: Lessons and Laments.” National Civic Review
66 (February 1977): 64–69.
May, Janice C. The Texas State Constitution: A Reference Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 1996.
Moneyhon, Carl H. Texas After the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction. College Station:
Texas A&M University Press, 2004.
Mooney, Christopher Z. “The Decline of Federalism and the Rise of Morality-Policy Conflict in
the United States.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 30 (Winter/Spring 2002): 171-188.
Peterson, Paul E. “The New Politics of Federalism.” In Book of the States, 2005 ed., 21-24.
Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, 2005.
Ranney, Joseph A. “A Fool’s Errand: Legal Legacies of Reconstruction in Two Southern States.”
Texas Wesleyan Law Review 9 (Fall 2002): 1-58. Texas and North Carolina compared.
Sibley, Joel H. Storm Over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Smallwood, James M., Barry A. Crouch, and Larry Peacock. Murder, Mayhem: The War of
Reconstruction in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004.
Soika, Kelli. “Someone Must Pay: Proposals for Dealing with Unfunded Mandates.” Interim
News No. 78-7 (Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 22
July 2004): 1-9.
Stauffer, Molly, and Carl Tubbesing. “The Mandate Monster.” State Legislatures (May 2004):
22-23.
Sturdevant, Paul E. “Robert John Walker and Texas Annexation: A Lost Champion.”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly 109 (October 2005): 189-204.
Tarr, G. Alan. Understanding State Constitutions. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,
1998.
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Texas Constitutional Convention. Record of Proceedings: Official Journals. 8 January–30 July
1974. 2 vols. Austin, 1974.
Texas Constitutional Convention. Record of Proceedings: Official Proceedings. 8 January–30
July 1974. 2 vols. Austin, 1974.
Texas Constitutional Revision Commission. A New Constitution for Texas: Text, Explanation,
Commentary. Austin, November 1973.
Tubbesing, Carl. "Federalism's Ups and Downs." State Legislatures (February 2002): 12-17.
After years of devolution, there are pressures for centralization.
Vernon’s Annotated Constitution of the State of Texas. 3 vols. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 1955. Vol.
3 contains texts of the early constitutions and organic laws of Texas.
Walker, David B. The Rebirth of Federalism. New York: Chatham House, 2000.
Wallace, Ernest, David M. Vigness, and George B. Ward, eds. Documents of Texas History, rev.
ed. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2003. Included among 141 documents are
documents on Texas’s constitutional history.
Williams, Patrick G. “Of Rutabagas and redeemers: Rethinking the Texas Constitution of 1876.”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly 106 (October 2002): 230-253.
Winders, Richard Bruce. Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution.
Abilene, Tex.: State House Press, 2004. Discusses the politics of alienation, centralism vs.
federalism, and other issues leading to rebellion and independence.
Zimmerman, Joseph F. “Congressional Preemption and the States.” In Book of the States, 2006
ed., 26-29. Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, 2006.
Zimmerman, Joseph F. “Cooperative Federalism in the Twentieth Centuy.” Publius: The Journal
of Federalism 31 (Spring 2001): 15-30.
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