Essay On Texas Constitution

A constitution is a fundamental law or the basic principles and laws of the nation. It is also a necessary tool to run a nation in a proper way. Both Texas constitution and US Constitution are the same kind of documents which contain Bill of rights which helps for the protection of civil liberties from the government infraction and provide s the separation of power between executive, legislative and judicial branches of the government and separate the power between lower and upper level of government. In US constitution, all the states are lower than the federal government whereas in Texas constitution countries are subordinate to all the state government. Texas constitution puts rights as first and is longer and more detail

than Us constitution. There is only information which is related to Texas which is not found in us constitution. The US constitution has not been rewritten but the Texas constitution have written several times.

The United States Constitution is often referred to as a "living" constitution, because of its adaptability to the emerging and ever changing political and social views, needs and demands of Americans.

Moreover, its enduring nature in a world of continued change has served as a role model for the evolution of numerous governmental institutions and their respective constitutions around the world. Its self-correcting and self-regulating nature made possible through amendments, the constitutional supremacy it embraces, the bill of rights, the separation of powers and its simplicity of design are major strengths of the constitution. The US constitution provides president power of being chief executive, commander in chief and the head of the state in Texas the governor has a same power except the key power of the head of government. The Texas constitution defines the role of the state government and provides the rights of the Texas people. It is subject only to the constitution of the united states and federal laws. Some of the major difference between this constitution is the president of united states can appoint members of cabinet ,court justices ,judges and many others officers of government. And in Texas officers like attorney general, state comptroller are elected. Value of liberty more heavily weighted in Texas system and there is more explicit limits on government power, more explicit reservations to the

people.

In Texas the Governments estimate their incomes and the expenses in a budget, just as most family members do. The Texas Constitution requires a balanced budget. That is, the total amount the government spends must not be more than its income and tax from the other sources. With the U.S. Constitution, there was a problem with the earlier Articles of Confederation because the government was too decentralized and not powerful enough. The U.S. Constitution was designed to overcome these weaknesses and offer a degree of centralization and increased government power. But this is precisely what the Texas Constitution was designed to reverse and avoid. The framers of the U.S. Constitution wanted to enable government action; the framers of the Texas Constitution wanted to paralyze government action.

The check and balances system is very important part of the constitution because of this all of the three branches are allowed to limit each other. And it makes all branches balance in power. The checks always makes sure that no decision in government is taken lightly. So when the present want to make the treaties with the other country the senate should always approve it.

The strength of us constitution is that it gives congress its power and should have minimum number of members presents. The all states should honor the laws of the other state. So everyone has respect with the laws of each other state. The weakness of the Us constitution is that the judge serve for life or until they want to retire which is not a good system because there are lot of other people who is more talented and have knowledge to be a judge .The other weakness of the us constitution is that you must be 35 years of age and born in USA to became a president of the united states. Its not a good system if someone moved here in us and became a full citizen and have more knowledge and ability to be a leader then they should get chance to be a president.

The United States Constitution is deeply flawed, to the point where some of its strengths represent major threats to its original purpose put forth by the founding fathers. Although federalism is vital to avoid the concentration of power in a single structure of government, it blurs the concept of the separation of powers by providing the national government with sufficient protection to surpass the power allocated to states. In the time being there is not an easy approach to deal with this dilemma; however, it is not terribly hindered to solve as to set it aside for another 200 hundred years. Therefore, one of the first measures to deal with the problem in question is to narrowly draw the jurisdictional boundaries in order to define the power reserved for each structure of government, so that no structure has an unfair advantage over another. Such a measure should address the insufficient protection given to the states as compared to the national government.

The other weakness of Us constitution is that its congressional stagnation. There is the absence of limit in term in congress which has been an issue among politicians. Term limit in congress would bring the inexperience individual taking role. There is also a less involment of public in the election of the congress as of president.