- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part I Texas the Southern State -
One The All-White Primary -
Two After the Voting Rights Act -
Three From Discrimination to Affirmative Action -
Part II Texas the Western State -
Four Railroads -
Five Oil -
Six School Finance -
Seven Immigration -
Part III Texas and Cultural Issues -
Eight Freedom of Speech and the Press -
Nine Freedom of and from Religion -
Ten Abortion -
Part IV Distinctly Texas -
Eleven Prosecuting Consensual Adult Sex -
Twelve Capital Punishment -
Thirteen Tom DeLay’s Redistricting - Conclusion
- Notes
- Index of Supreme Court Cases
- General Index
(p.131) Part III Texas and Cultural Issues (p.132)
(p.131) Part III Texas and Cultural Issues (p.132)
- Source:
- America's Lone Star Constitution
- Author(s):
Lucas A. Powe
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
(p.133) Texas, like the rest of the South, turned Republican by the end of the twentieth century when the effects of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were fully realized. But Texas was concerned with issues of morality and order before the state turned Republican. Roe v. Wade was litigated at a time when Democrats were in as complete control of Texas as Republicans have been in this century. But as Texas became more Republican, issues of abortion, speech, and religion became more contested and salient. In addition to the already visited areas of federal power and equal protection, the cultural wars have brought to bear the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the Speech and Religion Clauses of the First Amendment. They do this in no small part because civil liberties came to dominate the Court’s constitutional docket once fights over economic issues were put to rest by the New Deal revolution. (p.134)
- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part I Texas the Southern State -
One The All-White Primary -
Two After the Voting Rights Act -
Three From Discrimination to Affirmative Action -
Part II Texas the Western State -
Four Railroads -
Five Oil -
Six School Finance -
Seven Immigration -
Part III Texas and Cultural Issues -
Eight Freedom of Speech and the Press -
Nine Freedom of and from Religion -
Ten Abortion -
Part IV Distinctly Texas -
Eleven Prosecuting Consensual Adult Sex -
Twelve Capital Punishment -
Thirteen Tom DeLay’s Redistricting - Conclusion
- Notes
- Index of Supreme Court Cases
- General Index