The constitution of 1876 remains the currently practiced law of the State of Texas in the U.S.A but not without the Supreme law of the USA Constitution. The constitution is the 7th ever since the Texas state gained independence from Mexico in 1826 (Halter, 2013). The constitution has elements of culture and history deeply ingrained in its provisions. It bears some element of the Spanish Law (that governed Mexico before Texas ceded in 1826), The American law that Texas joined in 1845 and typical Texan aspirations after Texas ceded itself from U.S.A in 1861 at the verge of the 1861-1865 American Civil war (Gibson et al, 2017). The constitution of Texas 1876 was drafted 10 years after a civil war that earmarked the end of slave labor. Texas had just joined the United States in 1845 becoming the 28th member of the Union. However, due to differences on whether to abolish or retain slave labor in the 1860s, Texas cut its ties with the U.S.A northern states joining the Confederate States of the Southern U.S.A. A civil Confederate Vs Union state war would later be fought in 1861-1866. Following the war, slavery would later be abolished and Texas would rejoin U.S.A in 1866 and a new constitution enacted in 1876 (Gibson et al., 2013). …show more content…
The land was also to be allocated to the slaves after the end of slavery in 1866. However, slaves (immigrants) faced losing their property to the federal after failure to pay poll taxes. The Texas constitution of 1876 thus came into force to defend debtor’s property seizure as the slaves could not evade this it is that they were poor and indebted to their masters whom they worked for and in return would get land for settlement under the feudal land tenure of the Spanish (Halter,