January 4, 2001
For immediate release
DIGITIZED TEXAS CONSTITUTIONS NOW AVAILABLE
FROM UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW LIBRARY
The Jamail Center for Legal Research, The University of Texas at
Austin, is proud to announce the completion of its Texas
Constitutions Digitization Project.
The website, located at <http://www.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/>,
provides access to a complete collection of the seven constitutions
that have governed Texas in its days as a Mexican state, as an
independent republic, and as a state up to the adoption of the
present constitution in 1876. It also includes the Mexican
Constitution of 1824, the Texas Declaration of Independence and some
proposed constitutions that were never enacted. The Spanish-language
editions of several of these documents are also available.
The constitutions are available both as searchable text and as image
files. "Students, faculty and researchers across Texas and around the
world now have access to these important historical and legal
documents," said Professor Roy M. Mersky, director of the Jamail
Center. "The project also helps to preserve the rare and fragile
originals."
Also available is a bibliography of the original editions of the
Texas constitutions, as well as a bibliography of historical works on
Texas constitutional history. In addition, there is a selected set of
links to other Internet sites with related materials.
Texas is still governed by the 1876 Constitution, which has now been
amended 308 times. The project includes only the original, unamended
version of the 1876 Constitution.
The Internet Scout Project recently highlighted the Texas
Constitutions Digitization Project in its weekly Scout Report, one of
the Internet's oldest and most respected publications. The selection
was based on the site's usefulness, depth of content,
authoritativeness, and presentation.
The Texas Constitutions Digitization Project was made possible by a
$20,000 TexTreasures grant from the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission. The Center for American History at The University of
Texas at Austin provided several of the documents from its
collections.
The scanning and indexing was done by Information Access Institute of
Georgetown, Texas, a nonprofit corporation that works with libraries,
museums, archives, and others to plan and implement Internet services.
For additional information, contact Mike Widener at the Jamail Center
for Legal Research, The University of Texas at Austin, (512)
471-7263; e-mail <mwidener@mail.law.utexas.edu>.
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DOCUMENTS IN THE TEXAS CONSTITUTIONS
DIGITIZATION PROJECT
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Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States, 1824
(English & Spanish)
Constitution of the State of Coahuila and Texas, 1827
(English & Spanish)
Constitution of the Proposed Mexican State of Texas, 1833
Declaration, with Plan and Powers of the Provisional
Government of Texas, 1836 (English & Spanish)
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836 (English & Spanish)
Constitution of the Republic of Texas, 1836
(English & Spanish)
Constitution of the State of Texas, 1845 (English
& Spanish, plus title page of the German edition)
Constitution of the State of Texas, 1861 (seceding
from the U.S. and joining the Confederate States)
Constitution of the State of Texas, 1866 (rejoining the U.S.)
Constitution of the State of West Texas, 1868
Constitution of the State of Texas, 1869 (Reconstruction
constitution) (plus title page of the German edition)
Constitution of the State of Texas, 1876 (English & Spanish,
plus title page of the German & Czech editions)
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