Answer: Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the State
The Texas Constitution prohibits the offering away of the state’s funds or resources and the use of state funds or resources for any private purposes, the purposes of must be public to the state, the government and themselves.
