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The Constitution of the State of Texas is the document that establishes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of Texas, and enumerates the basic rights of the citizens of Texas. The current document was adopted on February 15, 1876, and is the seventh constitution in Texas history (including the Mexican constitution).
Poland's constitution (adopted in 1997) caps the public debt at 60% of GDP – the government cannot take on any financial obligations that would cause that limit to be exceeded. To ensure this level is never breached, Poland has a self-imposed debt threshold of 55% of GDP, and the government must take action to balance the budget once this ...
The Legislature is the constitutional successor of the Congress of the Republic of Texas since Texas's 1845 entrance into the Union. The Legislature held its first regular session from February 16 to May 13, 1846. The Legislature has completed its 88th session, and the next session is the 89th session, scheduled to convene on January 14, 2025 ...
The Reconstruction Amendments, or the Civil War Amendments, are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870. [1] The amendments were a part of the implementation of the Reconstruction of the American South which occurred after the Civil War .
"The debt ceiling has been raised over 100 times between World War II and nowadays." It currently stands at $31.4 trillion. On Jan. 19, the U.S. hit its limit on how much money it can borrow.
The current debate in the nation's capital over whether to increase the federal debt ceiling might sound like so much partisan bickering to the average American, but the way it plays out could ...
Getty Images (Getty Images/iStockphoto) The debt ceiling is a limit on the total amount of money the federal government is authorized to borrow — through Treasury-backed securities such as bills ...
These were detailed in the Constitution of the Republic of Texas of 1836. The Constitution specified a term of two years for the first elected president (Sam Houston) and terms of three years thereafter; the president could not succeed himself, but there were otherwise no term limits. The president was elected separately from the vice president ...