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| | SHQ Online :: Volume 018 Number 4 :: THE CONSTITUTION OF TEXAS, 1845 |
 | | In reducing the age of representatives from twenty-five to twenty-one years, she was correcting an abnormality among constitutional provisions and conforming to type. |
 | | But Texas was still a frontier,—not so much a frontier as in 1836, not entirely under the influence of the pioneer, not completely given over to the “ultraism of the age,” but none the less youthful, confident of its capacity, and progressive in its views. |
 | | In addition to the Debates, published in Austin in 1845 (and hereafter cited as Debates), there is also Journals of the Convention that assembled in the City of Austin on the fourth of July, 1845, for the Purpose of Framing a Constitution for the State of Texas (Austin, 1845). |
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