Twin Influences Of Jacksonian Radicalism

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The twin influences of Jacksonian agrarianism and frontier radicalism-both prevalent when Texas first became a state and both widely supported by the bulk of immigrants to Texas before the Civil War (Ericson).Those influences produced sections prohibiting banks and requiring a stricter separation of church and state than that required in older states. Reconstruction, under the highly centralized and relatively autocratic administration of Governor Edmund J. Davis and his fellow Radical Republicans, prompted provisions to decentralize the state government (Ericson). After regaining control over the legislative and executive branches of the government, the Democrats wanted to replace the Constitution of 1869. They wanted all officials elected

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