Texas Government Questions with CORRECT Answers (Verified Update)
Q1: How did the Texas Creed define early Texas history and impact the political culture of Texas?
(SAQ, maybe)
Answer: Belief and practice of Anglo superiority in political and cultural institutions, HONOR
VIOLENCE
Q2: What were the population demographics (relative size of each group in relation to one
another) of Texas at the time of Independence?
Answer: Anglo immigration to Texas brought homesteading, racist ideology, and violence toward
other races. This built the foundation for traditionalism and provincialism to dominate the
early political culture of Texas.
Q3: What was the primary motivation of Texas for declaring independence from Mexico?
Answer: 30,000 Anglo-Americans (largest), 14,200 American Indian (mid sized), 3,478 Tejanos
(smallest)
Q4: What is the difference between Individualistic, Traditionalistic, Moralistic political cultures?
Answer: Revisionists think that the Texas Slave Revolt was more about protecting slavery against the
Mexican abolitionist government rather than going against Santa Anna, see it in a more
modern/pragmatic interpretation; traditionalists are concerned with the sanctity of the
Texas shrine and the mythic/legends of heroism, usually more conservatives and older folks
Q5: What part of the United States does each political culture originate?
Answer: Moralistic believes the government serves the people and creates a just society;
Individualistic views the government as an adversary that uses taxes and regulations to limit
their economic freedom; Traditionalistic believes government vehicle for maintaining the
status quo and its hierarchy, being run by the elites
Q6: What part of the United States does each political culture originate? M
Answer: Puritan New England T - Old South I - Mid-Atlantic colonies
Q7: What is a provincial political culture and how does it apply to Texas?
Answer: I - Mid-Atlantic colonies
, Q8: What is the process through which the Texas Constitution is amended?
Answer: a narrow, limited, and self-interested view of the world often associated with rural values
and notions of limited government; nonwhites are a significant part of Texas history and
contemporary society in terms of numbers and cultural fabric
Q9: Is the Texas constitution generally considered to be short or long as compared to the
constitutions of others states within the U.S.A.?
Answer: First proposed by a two-thirds majority vote of the members in each legislative chamber
and approved by a simple majority of the state's voters in a general or special election
called referendum
Q10: What are the founding principles of the Texas Constitution?
Answer: Longer
Q11: What are the founding principles of the Texas Constitution? Defines limits & and powers of
government
Answer: popular sovereignty, limited stated government through local control, separation of
powers, and personal rights and liberties.
Q12: What are the executive, judicial powers and legislative powers of the governor?
Answer: Defines limits & and powers of government: popular sovereignty, limited stated
government through local control, separation of powers, and personal rights and liberties.
Q13: What are the executive, judicial powers and legislative powers of the governor? Executive
Answer: appointive, military, proclamatory, executive orders, promoting economic development,
and line-item veto Legislative - Message Power, Special Sessions, and Veto Power Judicial -
Full Pardons, Conditional Pardons, Reprieves, Appoint Jusged, and Commutations
Q14: Why is the office of governor of Texas traditionally considered a weak office?
Answer: Judicial - Full Pardons, Conditional Pardons, Reprieves, Appoint Jusged, and Commutations
Q15: What do we mean by the plural executive?
Answer: Because of the Plural Executive, he can't appoint them.
Q16: Who makes up the plural executive (be able to name at least three besides governor)?
Answer: Group of officials in charge of making decisions and giving orders that are not the governor
Q1: How did the Texas Creed define early Texas history and impact the political culture of Texas?
(SAQ, maybe)
Answer: Belief and practice of Anglo superiority in political and cultural institutions, HONOR
VIOLENCE
Q2: What were the population demographics (relative size of each group in relation to one
another) of Texas at the time of Independence?
Answer: Anglo immigration to Texas brought homesteading, racist ideology, and violence toward
other races. This built the foundation for traditionalism and provincialism to dominate the
early political culture of Texas.
Q3: What was the primary motivation of Texas for declaring independence from Mexico?
Answer: 30,000 Anglo-Americans (largest), 14,200 American Indian (mid sized), 3,478 Tejanos
(smallest)
Q4: What is the difference between Individualistic, Traditionalistic, Moralistic political cultures?
Answer: Revisionists think that the Texas Slave Revolt was more about protecting slavery against the
Mexican abolitionist government rather than going against Santa Anna, see it in a more
modern/pragmatic interpretation; traditionalists are concerned with the sanctity of the
Texas shrine and the mythic/legends of heroism, usually more conservatives and older folks
Q5: What part of the United States does each political culture originate?
Answer: Moralistic believes the government serves the people and creates a just society;
Individualistic views the government as an adversary that uses taxes and regulations to limit
their economic freedom; Traditionalistic believes government vehicle for maintaining the
status quo and its hierarchy, being run by the elites
Q6: What part of the United States does each political culture originate? M
Answer: Puritan New England T - Old South I - Mid-Atlantic colonies
Q7: What is a provincial political culture and how does it apply to Texas?
Answer: I - Mid-Atlantic colonies
, Q8: What is the process through which the Texas Constitution is amended?
Answer: a narrow, limited, and self-interested view of the world often associated with rural values
and notions of limited government; nonwhites are a significant part of Texas history and
contemporary society in terms of numbers and cultural fabric
Q9: Is the Texas constitution generally considered to be short or long as compared to the
constitutions of others states within the U.S.A.?
Answer: First proposed by a two-thirds majority vote of the members in each legislative chamber
and approved by a simple majority of the state's voters in a general or special election
called referendum
Q10: What are the founding principles of the Texas Constitution?
Answer: Longer
Q11: What are the founding principles of the Texas Constitution? Defines limits & and powers of
government
Answer: popular sovereignty, limited stated government through local control, separation of
powers, and personal rights and liberties.
Q12: What are the executive, judicial powers and legislative powers of the governor?
Answer: Defines limits & and powers of government: popular sovereignty, limited stated
government through local control, separation of powers, and personal rights and liberties.
Q13: What are the executive, judicial powers and legislative powers of the governor? Executive
Answer: appointive, military, proclamatory, executive orders, promoting economic development,
and line-item veto Legislative - Message Power, Special Sessions, and Veto Power Judicial -
Full Pardons, Conditional Pardons, Reprieves, Appoint Jusged, and Commutations
Q14: Why is the office of governor of Texas traditionally considered a weak office?
Answer: Judicial - Full Pardons, Conditional Pardons, Reprieves, Appoint Jusged, and Commutations
Q15: What do we mean by the plural executive?
Answer: Because of the Plural Executive, he can't appoint them.
Q16: Who makes up the plural executive (be able to name at least three besides governor)?
Answer: Group of officials in charge of making decisions and giving orders that are not the governor
