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Authoring of the Texas constitution was dominated by common people's interests and an organization called the Grange.
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- The Constitutional Convention of 1875 culminated in the birth of the Constitution of Texas.
- The authors of this constitution intended to vest the powers of government into the hands of the people of the state.
- The Grange's were the ones who insisted that the constitution be framed with the common people at its core.
- The document of the Constitution thus ended up having articles dedicated to suffrage, education, general provisions for the public, etc.
Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an Oath Of Allegiance to the Union. Voters could then elect delegates to draft revised state constitutions and establish new state governments. All southerners except for high-ranking Confederate army officers and government officials would be granted a full pardon. Lincoln guaranteed southerners that he would protect their private property, though not their slaves. Most moderate Republicans in Congress supported the president’s proposal for Reconstruction because they wanted to bring a quick end to the war.
In many ways, the Ten-Percent Plan was more of a political maneuver than a plan for Reconstruction. Lincoln wanted to end the war quickly. He feared that a protracted war would lose public support and that the North and South would never be reunited if the fighting did not stop quickly. His fears were justified: by late 1863, a large number of Democrats were clamoring for a truce and peaceful resolution. Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan was thus lenient—an attempt to entice the South to surrender.
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