# Why did Texas want to be annexed by the United States?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 6, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-texas-want-to-be-annexed-by-the-united-states/843091 "2019-11-06T19:55:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-texas-want-to-be-annexed-by-the-united-states/843091/61 "2019-11-10T23:26:21Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> So, according to the Tarleton Law School, a Constitution entrenching white supremacy is “one of the best-drafted state constitutions”? 😕

Probably in the same sense that you can talk of a “well-crafted set of manacles.”😉

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**Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-texas-want-to-be-annexed-by-the-united-states/843091/62 "2019-11-11T03:43:45Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Browsing through the collection of Texas constitutions at the Tarleton Law Library of the University of Texas at Austin, where I found those two constitutions I cited, I also found the Constitution of Texas of 1845, adopted just before Texas was annexed. The summary of the Constitution put up by the Tarleton Law Library has this interesting statement: “Constitutional scholars consider it to have been one of the best-drafted state constitutions.”
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> The Constitution carries forward many of the provisions from the Republic of Texas Constitution, included continuing slavery and barring “Africans, and descendants of Africans” from civil rights.
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> So, according to the Tarleton Law School, a Constitution entrenching white supremacy is “one of the best-drafted state constitutions”? 😕

Probably more in the sense of does what a constitution is supposed to do in a legal sense, without leaving too many loopholes, areas for interpretation, etc… not necessarily in the sense of what’s right or wrong.

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