Which of the following is true regarding how proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution appear on the ballot?
A) The ballot contains only the number assigned to the proposed constitutional amendment; it does
not contain a description of the amendment.
B) The ballot language is not constrained by a prescribed legal style.
C) Proposed amendments are always written in ways that promote understanding of what the
amendments would accomplish.
D) The ballot language of a proposed amendment is often incomprehensible without reading the
explanations published in advanced.
E) Texas law requires that descriptions of the proposed amendments must be written at a sixth-grade
level.
Q. 2The Texas legislature's first attempt to call a constitutional convention for a comprehensive revision of the 1876 Texas Constitution was
A) shortly after the Constitution was adopted.
B) during World War II.
C) during the civil rights movement.
D) during the governorship of Ann Richards.
E) during the governorship of George Bush.
Q. 3The Texas Constitution has NOT been
A) revised in a piecemeal fashion.
B) revised comprehensively.
C) amended.
D) criticized.
E) in effect since 1876.
Q. 4In what decade were the most amendments added to the Texas Constitution of 1876?
A) 1870s B) 1930s C) 1960s D) 1980s E) 2000s
Q. 5Between 1966 and 1969, which Texas governor led an effort to revise the Texas Constitution?
A) James Ferguson
B) Beauford Jester
C) John Connally
D) Preston Smith
E) Mark White
Q. 6A budget submitted to the legislature by the ________ is generally ignored in favor of the budget submitted by the ________.
A) comptroller; state treasurer B) state treasurer; governor C) governor; Legislative Budget Board D) lieutenant governor; governor E) State Board of Control; General Services Administration
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