Most judges in the state of Texas are elected by registered voters and vacancies that may occur outside the normal electoral calendar are filled by someone appointed by the relevant elected officials. Vacancies at the county level for instance and the justice of the peace officer is filled by the appointment of the county commissioners court while at the municipal court vacancies are filled by people appointed by the governing body of the city or the mayor and the judicial vacancies at the supreme court level are filled by the appointment of the governor with advice from the Senate.
The Camp Meeting Chorister<span> is a collection of hymns and spiritual songs printed and published by John Clarke of Philadelphia, PA, in 1830, with stereography done by Lawrence Johnson, also of Philadelphia. </span>
According to a Red Guard leader, the movement's aims were as follows:
Chairman Mao has defined our future as an armed revolutionary youth organization...So if Chairman Mao is our Red-Commander-in-Chief and we are his Red Guards, who can stop us? First we will make China Maoist from inside out and then we will help the working people of other countries make the world red...And then the whole universe.[2]
Despite being met with resistance early on, the Red Guards received personal support from Mao, and the movement rapidly grew. Mao made use of the group as propaganda and to accomplish goals such as destroying symbols of China's pre-communist past, including ancient artifacts and gravesites of notable Chinese figures. However, the government was very permissive of the Red Guards, who were even allowed to inflict bodily harm on people viewed as dissidents. The movement quickly grew out of control, frequently coming into conflict with authority and threatening public security until the government made efforts to rein the youths in. The Red Guard groups also suffered from in-fighting as factions developed among them. By the end of 1968, the group as a formal movement had dissolved.
